Agartala, 22 May 2026 — Tension erupted on the Tripura University campus on Thursday as students and activists of the ruling party’s student wing, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), protested the recently published fifth-semester results of the four-year undergraduate programme, alleging widespread errors in the form submission process that left many candidates marked as failed. The exams covered students from 25 general degree colleges affiliated to the university.
Agitating students said exam forms had been submitted nearly three-and-a-half months before the tests, but after results were declared many found their forms had not been processed correctly. Several candidates who already had backlog papers from the second and fourth semesters were reportedly shown as failed in all fifth-semester subjects, prompting anger across the student body and protests at multiple colleges.
On Thursday, ABVP activists demonstrated at the university and met Acting Vice-Chancellor Senior Professor Shyamal Das, pressing the administration for immediate corrective action. After the meeting, ABVP leaders told reporters that “all affected students should immediately be declared passed” and warned of a gherao movement at the university if the issue was not resolved.
Student representatives cited University Grants Commission (UGC) policy for the four-year undergraduate programme, arguing that students should not be penalised for technical or procedural errors in form submission and should be allowed to continue their studies and sit subsequent semester exams.
Officials from the Ministry of Education reportedly intervened on Thursday evening and issued instructions to the university. When contacted, Senior Professor Samir Kumar Sil, Registrar of Tripura University, and Acting Controller of Examinations Professor Chinmoy Roy said issues arising from faulty form submissions would be resolved by 30 May 2026. They assured that “no student would ultimately fail solely because of form fill-up errors” and that affected students would be permitted to appear in sixth-semester examinations.
Sources in the Education Ministry added that the university must decide on cases involving backlog papers and those shown as failed in all fifth-semester subjects in line with UGC norms. University officials also held a high-level meeting with the software company responsible for the “Sarmath Software” system on Thursday to troubleshoot technical problems that allegedly contributed to the confusion; officials said the matter is expected to be resolved within the next few days.
Original Source: https://tripurachronicle.in/local-news/students-protest-at-tripura-university-over-fifth-semester-results/
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Publish Date: 2026-05-22 21:31:00
