Christ Univ ex-students rejoice over possible derecognition

In A matter of minutes since word got out yesterday that Christ University may lose its deemed university status former students were rejoicing in cyber worldIt was clear from status messages on chat applications and Facebook profile statuses furiously being changed to reflect the views of former students on the developmentu00a0 that they had hated the new deemed university system put in place in 2008Christ College as it was earlier known became Christ University after a UGCbased accreditation programme kicked off the process of autonomy in 2007u00a0The Christ University campusThis led to the granting of deemed university status and eventually of autonomy to the institution in a long process that dragged over two whole years Several batches faced the inequalities created by the situation and at one point in 2007 all three batches of a threeyear course were following different systems The situation was brought under control eventually and this year would mark the first year of a completely autonomous batch passing outNavdha Dhingra who passed out from the 200407 batch of Journalism from Christ College was one of first few to create the buzz when she changed her status to So long Christ University Say hello to BU Bangalore University again with a link of an article that announced the decisionu00a0In no time she had around 30 comments and the news spread like wildfire Some comments were more descriptive Rejoice all you batches to come You will make through with less than 60 attendance You shall score much more than that through leaked papers as the Bangalore University promises I know mine was the luckiest batch All you loafers who boasted about being the prestigious University batch and its benefits well now what will you sayDeepti Dilip Kumar an exstudent from the same batch now based in Hyderabad had a status message that read And Christ University is back to being Christ College Not that Bangalore University is any more amazing but still yay She further updated in a few minutes that she had noticed with some satisfaction that not a single Christite is mourning at Christ Universitys derecognition Hah She had 40 comments in a matter of minutesAnother related status message read Ah the government is alive 44 institutions to lose deemed varsity status while still another said Christ University loses deemed status Oh so there is a God after all And there were a huge number of comments to theseThe Christ University management however responded by publishing a notice online saying As per Section 19 of the UGC Institutions Deemed to be Universities Regulations 2009 no withdrawal of the Deemed University status can be done without seeking written explanation of the institution concerned after notifying the deficiency and reason for such withdrawal Christ University strongly believes that there must be some error of judgment in the reported media communication The University is awaiting the official communication from the MHRD to take appropriate actions In the meantime it is requested that all students staff members and well wishers to be aware of the situation but not to panic about it Any further developments in this regard will be kept posted