Siliguri, April 25: A section of students of North Bengal University (NBU) confined the vice-chancellor and other executive council members to a room of the administrative building for nearly four hours this evening after the revised results of the BBA and BCA courses were announced.

The slogan-shouting protesters who squatted in front of the building from 7.30pm claimed the revised results were the “photocopies” of the earlier results published on March 31.

The BBA and BCA students of NBU’s IT Centre had gone on the rampage on March 31 after it emerged that less than 10 per cent had passed the first semester exams and those who had, scored less than 50 per cent. Students of Siliguri College, which offers BBA, had later joined the protests. They had sought re-examination of their answer scripts and increased marks.

“The NBU authorities had said the revised results would be published on April 20, but failed to keep their word. We met the vice-chancellor, who assured us that the results would be declared on April 28,” said Kumaresh Majumdar, a fourth-semester student of the BBA. “However, to our surprise, the results were put up in our department this evening and we hardly found any change in the marks.”

Another student said the revised results were only “five per cent better” than the previous one. “It seems that photocopies of the earlier result sheets have been pasted.”

With the students going on the rampage, the NBU authorities deployed policemen on the campus.

Eight colleges of the region and the IT Centre of NBU offer BBA and BCA courses. All are self-financed with over 2,000 students on the rolls.