CU alters examination centres to accommodate CAPF personnel
Times of India | 25 March 2026
Kolkata: After exam centres were changed due to the presence of central forces in 10-12 CU-affiliated colleges, the third-semester exams began on Tuesday. Under this special situation, the department of the Controller of Examinations allowed students whose exam centres were changed to appear for the exams with their previous admit cards if they were unable to download the new ones.
A notice issued under the signature of Jayanta Sinha, the controller of examinations, reads: "If any candidate, irrespective of gender, unknowingly reports to previously allotted examination centres whose number of candidates has been revised, they may also be permitted to appear at the nearest examination centre(s) on the first day of the examination."
The notice also mentioned that, due to CAPF occupancy, candidates from certain examination centres were reallotted to other examination centres for the BA/BSc/BCom Semester 3 examination under CCF and CBCS, and the university issued revised admit cards for these students, which were uploaded on the college portal. Students who failed to download their revised admit cards were permitted to appear for the exams with their previously downloaded admit cards.
Exam centres such as Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri College and Charuchandra College have been completely changed and given fresh allotments. Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri College's BCom third-semester examinees, whose exam centre was Charuchandra College, were shifted to Bhawanipur Education Society. Pankaj Kumar Roy, the college principal, said, "One battalion of the central force is staying at our college, so we requested that the centre be shifted, as students from other colleges would come to our college to write exams while our students would write exams at Charu Chandra College, which is also facing the same issue. We received a letter from the university and informed students immediately so that they do not face any trouble." The college is conducting practical examinations for first-year students in the remaining part of the college building. "Some exams are scheduled to be held at the home centres, and we are conducting the practical exams in the remaining portions of the college building."
Sinha said, "Colleges cooperated with us to make this alteration. It was a very difficult task because we had to reallocate these exam centres after the entire process was completed and admit cards were already distributed. We redistributed students from the colleges that were occupied to nearby colleges according to their capacity."
University officials are now concerned about the first-semester examination scheduled for April, as a greater number of colleges are likely to be occupied by that time, which would make it difficult to alter exam centres.