Students seeking admissions to various under-graduate and postgraduate courses in the state universities can heave a sigh of relief from the ensuing academic year as the state government is planning to chalk out a common academic calendar for all universities.
At present, each university frames its own academic calendar with regard to dates of commencement and closure of admissions, examinations, announcement of results, vacation period. etc.
As a result, the academic calendars of all the universities vastly differ from each other and this creates problems for students seeking admission or migration from one university to another.
Even though the need for having a common academic year for universities with similar academic pro
grammes was being discussed for years, it is taking shape only now. The Governor and Chancellor of Universities, Mr E.S.L.
Narasimhan, had also stressed on the need for a common academic calendar at his maiden VCs
