Ahmedabad: Chaos and confusion gripped Gujarat University (GU) students as serious discrepancies emerged in the hall tickets for the BCom Semester 1 exams, scheduled to begin on Friday. The administrative lapse forced thousands of students to return to colleges to exchange faulty hall tickets for revised versions just 48 hours before the exams.The trouble began when the university originally scheduled the exams for Jan 22, later pushing them back by a day to accommodate Foundation course exams. Despite knowing about this change, GU officials generated the first batch of hall tickets on Jan 20 with outdated dates and incorrect exam sequences. Compounding the oversight, the university was reportedly aware that a CA exam conflict had already necessitated a reschedule of certain papers to Feb 2.After realizing the error, the university regenerated the hall tickets on Jan 21, instructing affiliated colleges to urgently distribute the corrected versions. This left college administrations struggling to recall students who had already collected the initial documents, leading to a frantic second round of printing and distribution.Student wings of the NSUI and Youth Congress have since submitted formal representations to the university, slamming the administrative inefficiency. They have demanded immediate accountability and action against the officials responsible for the blunder, which they claim caused unnecessary mental distress and logistical hurdles for the student community.
