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Mumbai News: 49% MU Students Fail BCom Exam Even After Second Attempt

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Mumbai: It appears that a number of college students in the city are still reeling from the learning loss caused during Covid-19 pandemic, as almost half the University of Mumbai (MU) BCom students who repeated their Sem V exam failed yet again.

As many as 36,105 final year BCom students had registered for the Sem V repeat exam in April-May this year, after failing the regular test in November-December last year. Of these only 16,782 manage to clear all the papers, registering a success rate of 51.36%. The students’ performance was even worse in the regular Sem V test, with only a third of them, 34.25% to be precise, passing the exam.

The BCom students form the largest cohort of students enrolled at colleges affiliated to MU. The last batch of final year students, who were supposed to have graduated in 2022-23, hadn’t faced the conventional physical semester-end exams during their first and second years of the course, as the teaching and evaluation process had shifted online due to the pandemic. 

“The students are struggling to write papers, as we have switched back to the subjective question pattern of exams. But the results indicate that they have improved over time,” said a university official.

The impact of Covid isn’t limited to Commerce stream. Similar results were recorded for Sem V exams of the two other major courses, BA and BSc, where only 33.45% and 36.27% had passed the exam. The varsity is yet to declare the results of repeat exams for these programmes.

There are little signs of improvement as the passing rates for the regular Sem VI exams for all three courses, also held in April-May, are still below 40% and are only slightly better than the regular Sem V exam. 

On the other hand, students enrolled in self-financed courses have fared much better. For example, the success rate in the regular Bachelor of Management Studies (BMS) Sem V exam was 70.28%, which rose to 71% in Sem VI.

Arvind Luhar, a Commerce Professor at Ismail Yusuf College in Jogeshwari and a Member of MU’s Academic Council, said that the students are facing trouble with practical-oriented subjects such as Financial Accountancy, Cost Accountancy and Taxation.

“The students lost touch with practical subjects as there were no physical classes during the pandemic. Besides, many students had lost their focus on education as they were more concerned about meeting the financial needs of their families. While we are conducting remedial coaching, the aftershocks of Covid-19 are still felt. Hopefully, the results will be back to the normal level,” he said.

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Why is there a ceasefire at the behest of the US? asks SP leader and MLA Abu Asim Azmi

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Mumbai: Maharashtra Samajwadi Party leader and MLA Abu Asim Azmi said that America’s arrogance is unbearable. A ceasefire at the behest of America and a war at its behest are not right. He said that Pakistan had carried out terrorist and destructive acts in the country before, why did the Modi government not respond to it at that time? He said that after the Pahalgam terrorist attack, the country stood with the government like a lead wall, but a ceasefire was declared at the behest of America. He said that our country will decide whether to have relations with Pakistan or not. Who gave America the authority to do so? He said that they were brought to their knees at the behest of America.

Abu Asim Azmi said that when there were terrorist attacks earlier, where was America? Why didn’t it mediate? Once, it happened that Narendra Modi suddenly went on a visit to Pakistan for no reason. There is anger against Pakistan in the country and the people are adamant about continuing the war until the end of Pakistan. Narendra Modi says that negotiations and terrorism cannot go together, blood and water will not flow together, so why has no concrete step been taken against terrorism so far? Relations with Pakistan have been maintained repeatedly, now why was a ceasefire declared at the behest of America and the US President is also announcing it? Azmi said that if a war is fought across the border, then why was the war left incomplete?

Modi’s statement that blood and terrorism and water and blood will not flow together is just a dialogue. If there was to be a ceasefire, then there should have been mediation and intervention in this matter already. Why was it done now? He said that terrorism has not ended even after the abrogation of Article 370 and demonetization. Modi ji had said that if terrorism is not ended in 50 days, then the punishment given to me will be acceptable. Abu Asim Azmi said that India is the biggest power but America will teach us a lesson that when to go to war and when not, India will decide. He said that communalism is on the rise in the country and a burqa-clad woman was forced to chant the slogan of Jai Shri Ram and was mistreated. Muslims are being targeted. This is completely wrong. This kind of communalism should also end. The government also needs to put a stop to this.

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Demand to declare Pakistan a terrorist country, memorandum addressed to the Prime Minister submitted

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Former President of The Lawyers Association Kanpur, Ravindra Sharma said that recently Pakistani terrorists committed a heinous murder of innocent civilians in Pahalgam. In response to this, the Indian Army gave a befitting reply by targeting the terrorist bases located in Pakistan. Pakistan made an evil attempt to bomb the residential areas of India, to which the Indian Army gave a befitting reply and completely foiled the enemy.

Ravindra Sharma said, “We are proud of the valor and valor of our army. Now the time has come to officially declare Pakistan an enemy country and give complete freedom to the army to take action against terrorism.”

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Now in 17 districts of Uttar Pradesh, parking a vehicle outside the house will be charged. Yogi Government

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Now in 17 districts of Uttar Pradesh, parking a vehicle outside the house will be charged. Yogi government has taken this decision. This rule will apply to those people who do not have parking space in their house and they park their vehicle outside. The Municipal Corporation administration will create parking space for vehicles at night. Parking facility will also be provided under the flyover during festivals in crowded cities. Vehicles parked outside the house.

The cabinet of the Yogi government has approved the ‘UP Municipal Corporation (Construction, Maintenance and Operation of Parking Space) Rules-2025’. The Urban Development Department has also issued its notification. Now in 17 districts of UP, people will have to pay money to park their vehicle outside their house. The government has also fixed the parking rates. However, contract will not be given for parking in green areas. Parking rates for cities with less than 10 lakh population, time duration, two wheeler, four wheeler, 1 hour, Rs 5, Rs 10, 2 hours, Rs 20, 24 hours, Rs 40, Rs 80, monthly pass, Rs 600, Rs 1200

This facility will first start in Lucknow, Kanpur, Ayodhya, Aligarh, Agra, Ghaziabad, Gorakhpur, Jhansi, Prayagraj, Firozabad, Bareilly, Mathura, Meerut, Moradabad, Varanasi, Shahjahanpur and Saharanpur. A 12-member committee will be formed in every municipal corporation. The chairman of this committee will be the Municipal Commissioner. The Assistant Engineer will be made the Member Secretary. This committee will make a list of possible places for parking within 90 days. Also, licenses will be issued to develop parking facilities under the PPP (Public-Private Partnership) model. PPP model means that the government and private companies will jointly build parking.

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