NOTIFICATION

                                                                              (Minimum attendance criteria in classes)

The Senate in its 39th meeting held on 25th April, 2023, vide item no. 39.8 discussed the proposal for guidelines for minimum attendance in each registered course.

After detailed discussion, the Senate approved the following:

A student is expected to attend 100% classes, tutorials, practicals etc. However, to accommodate various situations, a minimum attendance criterion of 80% is to be set by the institute.

The senate deliberated to increase the minimum attendance criterion to 80% from the existing 70%.  Along with this, senate also approved the following points:

• Senate approved attendance (80%) is the minimum. Individual faculty can set a higher criterion than this. In the case of higher attendance criterion, instructor should inform the students at the beginning of the course.
• Recording of attendance is must for all courses.
• Every faculty, for all courses which he/she is teaching, should record the attendance and maintain the attendance registers.
• It is the student’s responsibility to check the attendance periodically. Instructor may/may not post the intermediate attendance.
• Faculty should inform the students about the final attendance status, after all the classes are completed.
• Faculty will share the students’ list, with attendance lower than the minimum attendance criterion, with the Academic Section before the end exams.
• A student, with attendance less than minimum specified, will not be permitted for the end exams and will be will be awarded a ‘FS’ grade, which is fail due to short attendance. A student, with ‘FS’ grade in a course, needs to repeat the course.
• A student, who fails to secure minimum attendance in an Audit Course may not be allowed to appear for the exams.
• They will be awarded ‘AF’ grade and will be reflected in grade sheet.
• Academic section will inform the parents regarding the failure of meeting the minimum attendance requirement.