Say, what could the college Registrar do? How the Principal could help? There remain always the critics – ‘this Administration is not desirably firm’ in dealing with the habitual absentees! During that day… those hours, there seemed nobody remaining anywhere to offer a solution… ‘to be, a savor from the catastrophe for an innocent rural family’! A family which had seeded a dream—three years before --- as they left at that time ‘their fresh young boy at the precincts of a gorgeous college named B C E T ’ Durgapur! A ‘d r e a m’ was born that day which got nurtured for more than two years that…. in another two years’ time …. an ‘engineer was to go back from Durgapur’….and take the charge and it will be ‘all happiness from then on for the family’. Alas, so far as the people here viz., --- the Principal and the Registrar, ‘the die was already cast’! The College could not rewrite a ‘new percentage of attendance for that student and send that to the University’! For some minutes… appearing like endless hours… ‘There was only sobs and silence in that room’.
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