Tribhuvan University has begun decentralizing its examination system to the provincial level, which has been centralized at the Office of the Controller of Examinations in Balkhu, since its establishment.
For years, students had been demanding the right to sit for examinations from any part of the country. In recent weeks, the university’s Free Students’ Union staged a protest at the premises of the Office of the Controller of Examinations. Following this, the office administration reached an agreement with the students.
As part of a gradual move toward decentralization and an information-technology-based examination system, the three-year bachelor’s level chance (supplementary) examinations, originally scheduled to be held in Kathmandu from Magh 18, will now be conducted from Magh 25 in the students’ respective provinces. An official notice states: “Considering the inconvenience and financial burden faced by examinees due to examinations being held in Kathmandu, the examination previously announced will now be conducted from Magh 25, 2082, with at least one examination center under each Regional Office of the Controller of Examinations.”
Accordingly, students from the faculties of Humanities and Social Sciences, Education, Management, and the Institute of Science and Technology will be able to appear in partial or chance examinations.
“We have done this as part of the process of decentralizing examinations,” said Controller of Examinations Laxman Paudel. He also informed that other examinations, like the three-year bachelor’s level exams, will be conducted from the provinces as far as possible.
Deepak Raj Joshi, Chairperson of the Tribhuvan University Free Students’ Union, stated that reforms in the examination system are progressing slowly despite the agreement reached with students.
