agra in a shocking incident 120 out of 248 students at agra colleges faculty of engineering and technology lost 10 out of 50 marks in a subject in their finalyear exam for not paying the mandatory rs 350 contribution for the colleges annual function after the students launched a protest saying the teachers put their careers at stake over silly thing the principal of agra college constituted a committee to probe the matter and find out who allowed it to happen according to finalyear students college cultural committee members pressurized them to make the mandatory contribution for kalrav 2016 the annual college festival failing which 10 marks will be deducted from general proficiency paper the students alleged that marks of around 120 students were actually deducted for nonpayment of rs 350 the students have sent a letter a copy of which is with toi to the principal in this regard they also highlighted other issues including poor placement assistance lack of teachers absence of wifi facility lack of equipment in laboratories and absence of any student body it mentions that there are around 265 students enrolled in the finalyear at present there are 98 students in computer science engineering 85 in electronics and communication 44 in mechanical and 38 in civil engineering department out of which around 120 students didnt come up with the contribution and were allotted on an average 10 less marks out of 50 in general proficiency for each mark i had put in a lot of hard work i refused to pay rs 350 due to the threatening behavior of the committee members which comprise of teachers from different branches this is a big loss to the students and is totally illegal said a finalyear mechanical engineering student surprisingly around 145 students who paid the sum got marks in range of 45 to 50 said the student a meritorious student of computer sciences said till last year there was active participation from the students in the college fest but this year the committee members threatened students to make the contributions and insulted them on daily basis they also ignored genuine financial problems of some students this caused resentment and many students neither contributed nor participated in the function agra college principal narendra yadav said we have received a letter from the final year engineering students the issue of marks deduction on account of not contributing towards the annual festival is serious a committee has been constituted to probe into the matter suitable action will be taken within 15 days