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TL;DR :- Jamia Millia Islamia’s Department of Mathematics has repeatedly denied internal re-tests to students with backlogs and year backs — a violation of university ordinances that guarantee those assessments. Over 4–5 years, dozens of students had their degrees lapsed and were failed not by exams, but by bureaucracy: internal marks left as 0, no notices given, no chance to reappear. The HOD enforced arbitrary practices, demanding letters from the Dean/CoE for internal retests — a requirement not applied in sister departments like Phy, Chem, Comp Sci, or other 10 Faculties and 29 centers of Jamia

I filed RTIs, gathered 54+ testimonies, and exposed this systemic neglect. This isn’t just my fight — it’s a broken system hurting hundreds silently.

I am working on bringing together students whose degrees were lapsed and file a written petition in the Delhi HC not sure under which sections but surely on violating right to education.

This is unacceptable especially in an institution that was reserved for minorities and students from downtrodden backgrounds come to uplift their families and they find themselves in a different struggles.

Please help me if you know any legal counsel who can take up this & share this so people are aware of this issue

Why I’m Speaking Out — And Who I’m Speaking For

The title of this post came about in my past 3 years(now the 4th year) in the Department of Mathematics of Jamia Millia Islamia. It didn’t come about in a day, it was gradual and is yet to become a reality but unfortunately its a reality for many who were here before me and if I don’t speak up today there will be many to come, many who look upto Jamia as a beacon of a bright future, many who come from all parts of the country. Many of whom very well might be the first graduates from their families, from their villages, from their unknown towns we in Delhi might never heard about. Young girls & boys who dream of uplifting their families from the downtrodden realities that many of us reading this post can never even imagine.

But if I don’t speak out today then those who have already come here and aspire to be here will suffer irreparable damage to the most precious resource that they are fighting for & against to uplift their families- TIME. Bad Times to Worse Times.

Who I Am — And How I Got Here

My name is Taha & I am from Hyderabad. I completed my 12th in 2018 and I am in Jamia since 2020. I was in B.Sc Aeronautics(Aircraft Maintenance Engineering) from

2020-2022 but I had to drop out due to its expensive yearly fee of 1,30,000 INR per year in its 3rd year technically but it was my 2nd year due to covid. I got into B.Sc(Hons) Applied Mathematics a 3-Year Degree Course in 2022.

What This Post Is About

This post’s intention is to highlight unauthorized procedural discrimination, academic misconduct, academic negligence, systemic violation of academic ordinance, abuse of academic authority by enforcing arbitrary procedures, and repeated student harassment in the Department of Mathematics of Jamia Millia Islamia under the leadership of Prof Shehzad Hasan who’s been the HOD since 2022. Which has affected atleast 14 students forcing them into their 5th year of the degree or the 2nd year back.

Understanding the Academic Ordinance and How It Works

Jamia as we love to call it has 11 faculties with 65 departments under them, & 29 centers. These departments offer Bachelors, Masters, Phd, PG-Diplomas. And the Academic Ordinance is the document that governs these courses and lays clear rules in all the aspects related to academics. The Academic Ordinance has the following segregation.

15-A for University Examinations PG Courses under Credit Based Semester Systems.

15-B for University Examinations 4-Year UG Courses under NEP & The Old 3-year UG Courses.

15-C for University Examinations for Programmes Regulated by Statutory Bodies(BTech by AICTE, BARCH by COA, BDS by DCI, BED by NCTE)

Our concern is here with 15-B & 15-A.

The Amendment That Came Too Late

This post would have turned out to be different & its pure fucking irony with the timing of the notice released on 30th July making amendments to Section 4 on Evaluation Policy of 15-B & 15-A. This marks a change for the upcoming batches who won’t be deprived of their 40% marks in the internals now.

But the careers that were ruined under the absence of these clearly worded rules is something that’s etched in stone & cannot be undone. And Prof Shehzad Hasan, HOD of Department of Mathematics for the academic years 2022-2025 has consistently acted in a way that can only led to be described as Pattern Of Academic Misconduct, Systemic Negligence, Consistent Refusal To Align With Ordinance, Abuse of Academic Authority.

What the Rules Actually Say (and Don’t Say)

Summarizing the issue here will lead you to question why is this even an issue cause its so logical to arrive at a solution. But as they say power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Up until 29th July 2025 the UG & PG Theory Courses Evaluation Policy for 10 Faculties excluding the courses under statutory bodies like AICTE, DCI,COA… was as follows

External Component(EC):- 75%

Internal Component(IC):- 25% Academic Ordinance, Clause 4.1, Page 155

The rules governing were pretty simple,

i) If you fail the IC of a subject then you are not eligible to give the EC there by declared failed in the subject. And when you re-appear for the subject in the respective odd/even semester you need to pass the IC to be eligible for the EC and only then will you be declared pass. Clause 4.3.7 Page 170

ii) If you pass the IC of a subject and fail the EC then in the respective semester you don’t have to re-appear for the IC. You only need to re-appear and score pass marks for the EC to be declared pass in the subject.  Clause 4.3.7 & 7.2.2-UG Page 170, 174 , Clause 6.3-PG Page 158

iii) If you fail in both IC & EC of a subject then you need to re-appear for both the components.  Clause 4.3.7 & 7.2.2, 7.2.2- UG, Clause 6.3-PG Page 158

In Faculty of Sciences under a proposal by the Dean & HODs which was approved on 4th Feb 2019 by the Academic Council, the external & internal components were amended & the mandatory condition to pass the internal component to be eligible for the external component was lifted and read as follows

External Component went from 75% to 60%

Internal Component went from 25% to 40%

The Mandatory Condition to pass the IC was lifted and a student would now be declared passed on scoring 40/100 in any Permutation & combination of IC+EC Score. And that 2 mid semester internal assessments will be conducted of 20% marks each.

But this proposal made no changes to the clauses 4.3.7, 7.1.2 & 7.2.2, 6.3. Meaning in simple terms it didn’t answer these three questions. And left it open to interpretation.

Three Key Questions the Amendment Left Unanswered

i) What if a student scores 0 marks, <10 marks out of 40 in his/her internals & fails to score 40/60 in his/her external component and consequently fails to score 40/100 & is declared failed in the paper. Will he/she be allowed to re-appear for their IC of 40 Marks in the respective odd/even semester since there’s no such thing as failing the IC now?

ii) What if a student wasn’t able to appear for his IC of 40 Marks & scored 0/40 & also failed to score 40/60 consequently failed to score 40/100. Will he/she be allowed to re-appear for their IC of the subject in the respective odd/even semester?

iii) What if a student failed to give his/her IC in any subject of any semester i.e scored 0/40 in IC & also was unable to score 40/60 resulting in failing the subject i.e <40/100. Now this failure to clear a subject resulted in an “YEAR BACK”. Now would the student to be allowed to re-appear for his/her IC when he/she is re-appearing for the EC in Year Back extension period?

*A student enrolled in a 3-Year Degree gets a 2-Year Extension in case he/she fails to clear any backlogs by the end of their 3rd Year. So if you have any backlogs from 1st to 3rd year from odd/even semesters you get 2 odd sems & 2 even sems to clear them (apart from the Compartment Exams for 5th & 6th Sem backlogs conducted right after the final exams). But if you fail to clear them then your degree is lapsed i.e you have just wasted 5 years trying to graduate.

What Any Sane Academic Would Assume

Any sane & logical mind would assume senior faculty teaching “Mathematics & Applied Mathematics” would find it reasonable to always choose to let a student give his/her internals again if they have scored 0, <10 or didn’t appear for them at all. So that the student isn’t unfairly deprived of 40% of their grades which if done across multiple subjects and semesters would render the degree as a useless piece of paper.

Other Departments Do It Right. Math Dept Doesn’t.

Now In crisp and clear terms. The sister departments Phy(Dean of Faculty is from Phy), Chem, Comp Sci, Geo under The Faculty Of Sciences makes no hassle when students with backlogs or year backs reach out to faculty members with requests to let them give internals again. They simple call them when they conduct the internals again & give them a fair chance to score 40/40.

But Department of Mathematics strayed away completely & not only arbitrarily conjure negative interpretation of the amendment which has room for that but…

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