thiruvananthapuram a move by calicut university in kerala to enhance the moderation mark upto 20 for final year engineering students who fail in one paper has sparked a row with the proleft student outfits dubbing it as another instance of mismanagement of higer educationaccording to sources the controversial order issued by the standing committee of the university syndicate suggested upto 20 marks could be given to those final year btech students in case they scored less than the pass mark in only one of the papers they attemptedreacting to reports in this regard left student outfits contended this would mean that a student who had just scored 20 out of 100 marks could get through the examination securing 40 marks through moderationthe mark gifting controversy has surfaced close on the heels of the kerala high court expressing concern over the standard of enginineering courses in selffinancing collegesthe cpim led ldf opposition on friday staged a walk out in the state assembly accusing the udf government of taking the high court order lightlychief minister oommen chandy and education minister p k abdu rabb however assured the house that government would adhere to the court directions and take steps to ensure that infrastructure and faculty in private professional colleges were of highquality