Chandigarh, Nov. 10 -- Students of Panjab University's (PU) science departments who have backlogs in major subjects but meet the required overall credit criteria will now be eligible for promotion, with the university set to implement a uniform aggregate credit-based promotion system from the next academic session.

The decision is expected to provide relief to students who were earlier denied promotion despite having secured sufficient overall credits because they had failed in major subjects.

PU registrar YP Verma said that under the earlier system, a student could face a backlog in promotion after failing in two major subjects even if their overall academic performance and credits were otherwise satisfactory.

"Now, the aggregate cred...