The parent-teacher meet in progress. Pix: Srinivas

Jamshedpur, Feb. 6: College checks, sealed and signed, waiting to be delivered.

Truant students shying away from classes will now have to face the music back home. Jamshedpur Workers? College has devised a novel way of forcing the students back to the thresholds of the classrooms.

Students opting for various bachelor degree courses (B.A, B.Sc and B.Com) from the next academic session will have to submit five self-addressed postcards or envelopes along with their admission forms. The postcards and envelopes will be used by the college authorities to intimate the parents about the performance of the wards.

But the move, college authorities informed, is ultimately aimed at improving dwindling attendance figures. It will also help the authorities report cases of indecent acts to the parents, in case their wards indulge in any such, they said.

?We are going to implement the system from the next academic session whereby it will be mandatory for all students to submit five self-addressed postcards or envelopes, failing which the concerned students will not be allowed to take admission. The college will soon issue a notification in this regard,? S.S. Razi, the principal of Jamshedpur Workers? College, said while talking to The Telegraph.

Razi added that the college was forced to adopt such a measure to address the issue of poor attendance, which he felt was ?dismal?.

The issue was also brought up at a parent-teacher meet at the college today. Interestingly, some of the parents were taken aback when they were informed that their respective wards have failed to attend even a single class in the last three months.

Razi has also directed the heads of departments to keep a vigil on the attendance records. ?We have decided to implement the university norm of 70 per cent attendance from this year. Those who fail to meet the norm will be debarred from appearing in the examination,? added Razi.

Meanwhile, Ranchi University officials have hailed the college for implementing such a system. ?It is a good move. Other colleges should also take lessons from it,? said Salil Kumar Roy, pro vice-chancellor of Ranchi University.