The Tribhuvan University Assembly, which failed to take place in November last year, is set to be organised on April 11.

Owing to the delay in holding the biennial event, the university has not been able to approve the budget for the current fiscal year while 40,000 graduates have been deprived of the opportunity to receive their certificates as no convocation has taken place for the last one and a half years. The Assembly has to approve the list of students who are eligible to participate in the convocation. “Frequent protests at the TU central office compelled us to organise the meet six months behind the schedule,” said TU Registrar Chandra Mani Poudel.

He said the convocation would take place in June as the TU needs two months to prepare gowns (special dresses worn by graduates during the convocation) and ready 40,000 certificates. The university has spent millions of rupees without endorsing the budget this fiscal. As advance budget, it has spent about Rs 3 billion in development and recurrent expenditures. In case the advance budget is not approved by the TU Council, the amount will be treated as arrears. The estimated budget for the fiscal year 2011/12 is Rs 5 billion. Meanwhile, the TU has appointed chiefs in six constituent colleges, including Shankar Dev, Ratna Rajya, Sanothimi and Public Youth, that were headless for more than six months.

source: The Kathmandu Post, 3 April 2012