Delay in MTech exams worries CIPET
BHUBANESWAR: Students of two-year MTech course with the city-based Central Institute of Plastic Engineering and Technology (CIPET), who had taken admission in the course in 2009, have appeared in only the 1st semester exam so far. The students alleged inordinate delay in conducting examination by the Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) is going to spoil their career. "If all examinations would have been conducted in the right time, we would have completed the course in 2011. But unfortunately, due to the negligence of BPUT authorities we have only completed the 1st semester in the past two years. Our career is at stake," said an MTech student in plastic engineering. CIPET had introduced MTech in plastic engineering and polymer nanotechnology in 2009. In the last two years, 34 students have taken admission in each batch. Students said some of them have got job offers in reputed companies while many are interested in pursuing higher studies in leading universities of I...