Guys, want to bring forward a fact about the functioning of IGNOU University, supposedly the largest University by student enrolment. I am a BTech construction management student of IGNOU regional centre bangalore. I enrolled in 2002 and this course is like a dual degree as it is to be done after diploma (in civil engg) however it is 4 years. You are taught advance courses in management. First thing, this course is very very tough to be completed in correspondence study, the course material is designed by professors (PHd's) from IIT's and the question papers are no easy either. only relief is the assignments which carry 30% weightage, however not to forget the passing marks are 50% overall. I was very lucky to have the study centre as NIT Surathkal (REC Karnataka) where i was taught by the best faculty and with great efforts along with full time job, completed my entire course in 5 years, that is however, i have been struggling till date to receive my degree. Problems being, IGNOU Delhi, did not receive my 1st year assignment marks from my regional centre, this took 1 year whole, then they did not receive marks for few subjects of 2nd year which took another year (because neither regional centre nor IGNOU delhi take any responsibility or are answerable) then there was this final year project marks which they did not receive, which again i had to struggle for to get them which again took about 8 months. with full time work, you can probably follow up like once in week (considering whole day calling) finally when i thought they had everything, i got to know that they did not have 2nd year laboratory marks, this was high time that i lost any hopes, however some helpful people from my study centre NIT surathakal, everytime helped me to get my marks, they had to send it in prescribed format to regional centre and then regional centre would despatch to IGNOU delhi. when we ask regional centre bangalore, why such mess, they tell me that its such old records, how can we search here, go and get it again from study centre... i was like, wtf, how will we know till the end of all four years whether IGNOU delhi has the marks or not... only when we discover after 4 years can we complain... i personally went to IGNOU delhi to sort the final issue and saw that the university is so huge that there is a free bus transportation inside the campus to reach different blocks, with entire days effort was able to reach to the right person, however even he said that the system is so big that the complaint will be lost in warehouse of papers... so better you have the marks sent directly to me... now this regional centre bangalore, after more than 3 months of recieving the last and final marks have not despatched it to IGNOU delhi... i dont know what more can be done regarding this, but only thing that i know is i have wasted my 4 years in this struggle as i could not pursue masters, have screwed up lot of my career, was about to commit suicide for once... and that this university, if unearthed... may become another scammer in Indian corruption list... be very careful while selecting this university
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