Calcutta University on Tuesday decided to restore the Regulations of 2009 for the Under Graduate students of academic session 2016-17, a day after West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee expressed concern over dip in pass percentage in Part 1 results.

“We have adopted a unanimous resolution for restoring the 2009 regulations for the academic session of 2016-17 for natural justice,” Vice-Chancellor Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee told reporters after the Syndicate meeting of the university.  

The 2009 regulations will be effective from a date to be notified later, the VC said.

Asked how the 2009 regulations will be effective, she said, It will come in place of the new rules introduced in 2016.

Asked what will happen to those having already received their mark sheets, Chatterjee said , “Those having scored below cut off marks will be allowed to sit for supplementary tests and get new mark sheets as par the 2009 regulations.” 

She, however, asserted there was not much difference between Part 1 results in 2016 and in 2017 but only the evaluation process was different.

“Media reports about 10,000 incomplete results are also not true and the figure would not be more than few hundreds including those having been marked absent,” she said.

The VC said "There was no personal communication from the Education minister" regarding media report about drop in pass percentage.

“The Syndicate took the decision on its own after considering all aspects for the sake of fast publication of results and to ensure fairness among all students,” she said.

The recently published BA Part 1 (Honours and General stream) results of CU showed that 28,000 among the total 64,000 candidates had passed - which is 43 per cent.

In BSc, an estimated 11,000 passed of the total 15,000 candidates - which is 70 percent.

In both BA and BSc Part 1, of the 79,000 candidates a total of 39,000 had passed.

The results triggered student protests in CU campus.

The Education minister expressed concern over the results yesterday and said he had urged the university to see if something could be done.