Agra: The staff and students of Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar University were surprised to see that the colour of marksheets issued for students of the 2017-18 session had changed from sky blue to saffron. After a delayed declaration of the main exam’s results, students of the university had been waiting for their marksheets, which the university started issuing a few days ago. The university registrar clarified that the change in colour had no political bearing.A senior leader of the university’s employee association said, “The change in the marksheet has been made to appease the BJP at the state and the center. There was no plan to change the marksheet that we knew of. It was a unanimous decision by top varsity officials.”The new marksheet has a saffron border. The logo and the name of the university at the top of the certificate have been highlighted in saffron. There is a large saffron impression of the logo in the middle while the background is light saffron.The university registrar, KN Singh, said, “Earlier, a decision was taken to issue a single marksheet to students after completion of their course. For this, changes had been made to the marksheet to make it look better. There is no reason other than this behind the saffron in the marksheets.”Thousands of students at Agra University, who passed out in session 2017-18, now have a blue marksheet for their first and second year and a saffron one for their third year. Gaurav Sharma, the president of Agra University student union for the session 2017-18 said, “The university administration must focus on working on real issues affecting students rather than change the colour of marksheets. Thousands of students are waiting for their erroneous marksheets to be corrected. Changing colour of the marksheet serves no interest of the students and is a purely political move. It should have been avoided. The government must not encourage such things in educational institutes.”Since the BJP came to power last year, UP has seen saffronisation of several government buildings, roadways buses, road dividers, electricity poles, toll plazas, etc.

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