BENGALURU: Are your wards pursuing their pre-university courses, then make sure that you keep yourself informed about their attendance status. Recently, a division bench of the High Court refused to interfere with the order of a single-judge bench dismissing the plea of a few PUC students seeking relaxation for their shortage in attendance. The single judge had declined to permit the students to take the II PUC examination for want of required attendance. The advocates for the students had challenged the order of the single judge on the ground that it is contrary to a decision of this court in Prajwal Kumar Patil vs. Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences.
To examine as to whether the students were eligible to appear for the examination in the absence of requisite attendance, the court felt that it is relevant to refer to Rule 12 of the Karnataka Pre-University Education (Academic, Registration, Administration and Grant-in-Aid etc) Rules, 2006 which reads: “Rule 12 – Minimum days of attendance: (1) A student shall have attendance of 75 per cent of the total number of periods in each subject during the academic year to become eligible to appear for the annual examination.” Further, the rule states that the director shall notify the minimum number of hours of periods of teaching in respect of each subject and also the minimum number of hours of experiments to be conducted by the student in each science subject.
