<p>Patna: Prayers to Lord Ganesha before a crucial exam is part of the preparation for many students, but discovering the elephant god’s picture on an admit card with his signature would only lead to confusion.<br /><br />Just as he was getting ready to write an exam on October 4, Krishan Kumar Roy, a first year BCom (Hons) student of Lalit Narayan Mithila University in Darbhanga, Bihar, found to his chagrin that the examination admit card had Ganesha’s picture instead of his own.<br /><br />This almost got him disqualified, as the university made him run around to rectify the error.<br /><br />Roy, a student of JN College in Nehra, had to submit relevant documents to get his identity verified before the varsity rectified the mistake and allowed him to write the exam.<br /><br />‘Error not our fault’<br /><br />The university, for its part, distanced itself from the controversy.<br /><br />“The mistake was not at our end. It happened at the cyber cafe from where the student submitted the online exam form,” said university registrar Mustafa Kamal Ansari.<br /><br />He also pointed out that the admit card could not be considered valid until the college principal counter-signed it after verifying the details.<br /><br />“We have asked all principals to verify and counter-sign the admit cards downloaded from the university website before allowing a student to write his or her examination,” the university registrar said.<br /><br />A frustrated Roy said, “The university seems to be running at the mercy of god. The faulty card is a testimony to it.”</p>
<p>Patna: Prayers to Lord Ganesha before a crucial exam is part of the preparation for many students, but discovering the elephant god’s picture on an admit card with his signature would only lead to confusion.<br /><br />Just as he was getting ready to write an exam on October 4, Krishan Kumar Roy, a first year BCom (Hons) student of Lalit Narayan Mithila University in Darbhanga, Bihar, found to his chagrin that the examination admit card had Ganesha’s picture instead of his own.<br /><br />This almost got him disqualified, as the university made him run around to rectify the error.<br /><br />Roy, a student of JN College in Nehra, had to submit relevant documents to get his identity verified before the varsity rectified the mistake and allowed him to write the exam.<br /><br />‘Error not our fault’<br /><br />The university, for its part, distanced itself from the controversy.<br /><br />“The mistake was not at our end. It happened at the cyber cafe from where the student submitted the online exam form,” said university registrar Mustafa Kamal Ansari.<br /><br />He also pointed out that the admit card could not be considered valid until the college principal counter-signed it after verifying the details.<br /><br />“We have asked all principals to verify and counter-sign the admit cards downloaded from the university website before allowing a student to write his or her examination,” the university registrar said.<br /><br />A frustrated Roy said, “The university seems to be running at the mercy of god. The faulty card is a testimony to it.”</p>
