NAGPUR: A month after TOI reported that Nagpur University had failed to update its Marathi website for about ten months, it has finally acted.
Now, even the Marathi website has necessary details like the main one and can be used by the students who find English difficult. Till now, it was just a webpage with no further information or links.
However, many sections had not been updated and the ones which were it was not in Marathi. Only Marathi circulars and contact were the new additions on the Marathi website. The rest of the information was in English.
Quoting sources, TOI on October 28 had reported that though Marathi was official language of Maharashtra, NU had abandoned it after the launch in 2007. It was last updated on December 29 last year.
The Marathi version was opened with a view to help the students from rural and remote areas who find it difficult to understand English.
While updating the Marathi website, matter on the English page was copied, which resulted in some blunders. Even the information about courses and faculty in post graduate Marathi department was uploaded in English while details about Hindi department were in Hindi.
Even the biodata of vice chancellor Vilas Sapkal, which was not there till the recent update, was in English. Additionally, both English and Marathi websites still carry old nomenclature of postgraduate course in journalism - Master of Mass Communication (MMC) - which had been changed to MA in Mass Communication about two years back as UGC had not recognized earlier nomenclature.
The English website still carries old and obsolete information. In the IQAC section, Sukhdeo Thorat was still named as UGC chairman despite the fact that Ved Prakash had recently taken over and was the chief guest at the NU convocation last week.
The IQAC section still carries a notice about an event that was held in 2009. Even the alumni section was "under construction" since the website was launched. It carries only two photographs, former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao and former state minister late Shrikant Jichkar, despite the fact that NU produced national and international stalwarts.
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