University's decision not communicated to the concerned college and students cannot be used to disown the students who have pursued their studies so long on being admitted by the College and debar them from appearing in the examination.

ORDER CCORDINGLY, J.

( 1 ) THE petitioners' allegation in this case is that they passed Class 10 + 2 Senior School Certificate Examination through 'patrachar' in the year 1994 under the Central Board of Secondary Education, and thereafter all of them got themselves admitted to the First Year B. Com. Course, Heramba Chandra College, 23 / 49, Gariahat Road, Calcutta-29 sometime in September 1994 The petitioners were also sent up for the B. Com. Final Examination from the said college to the University of Calcutta. The examination will be held in March April, 1996, but the University did not grant the petitioners registration certificates, and admit cards for sitting in that examination on the ground that 'patrachar' is not recognised by the University of Calcutta as equivalent to Senior School Certificate Examination in view of the resolution of the Syndicate dated 30th November, 1993 There is no doubt that the question of equivalence is to be decided by the University at the first instance and the Court ordinarily will not enter into the question of equivalence which is primarily for the University to determine but the difficulty in a case like this is that the students had been admitted in the concerned college on the basis of their results in the Patrachar Examination, and they have already pursued the course for two years and if at this juncture they are not given the opportunity to appear in the B. Com. Final Examination under the Calcutta University, the whole future academic career of the petitioners may be ruined for no fault of their own.

( 2 ) I called a report from the Principal of the concerned college and the report has been submitted and placed before me in which the Principal of the said college has stated that the decision of the Syndicate of the University of Calcutta was never communicated to the Principal of the college.

( 3 ) IT is also the case of the students that they were not aware of any decision whichmight have been taken by the Syndicate of the University.

( 4 ) THE learned Advocate appearing for the Principal of the college submits that he has informally collected a Circular dated 28th April, 1994 passed by the Calcutta University regarding the Universities which are described as ' Fake Universities' wherein request was made to the Principals / Heads of the Colleges to be careful so that no student passing from any fake university may be admitted to any college. It has further submitted that even such Circular was also not communicated to the college and a copy of the same was very recently collected informally by the Principal. It is really very unfortunate that the decisions which the University may be taking in paper are not being communicated to the concerned quarters thereby causing a lot of inconvenience and harassment to different quarters including students.

( 5 ) IT is needless to say that the University in such matters should act more carefully so that the decisions which it takes promptly brought to the notice of all concerned thereby avoiding the possibility of any undue inconvenience, harassment or embarrassment in future in respect of vital matters like education involving the career of the students. In the past also many students of ' Patrachar' Course have been allowed by this Court to appear in the University examination taking the view that since the decision of the Syndicate was taken on 30th November, 1993, those students who were admitted prior to that date should be allowed an opportunity to pursue their studies without any break. Now that it has come to the notice of this Court from the report submitted by the Principal as well as the submissions made on behalf of the students that even the decision of the Syndicate dated 30th November, 1993 relating to 'patrachar' has not been communicated to the concerned colleges nor any publicity of the same has been given, it will be clearly unjust, improper and cruel at this stage to disown the students who have pursued their studies s

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