India, Sept. 9 -- The Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) in Jharkhand's Dhanbad has announced a 'no mandatory attendance' policy, allowing students to appear for examinations irrespective of their attendance starting from the academic year 2025-26.

In a first for any of the 23 IITs, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad has said that its undergraduate (UG), postgraduate (PG), and doctor of philosophy (PhD) students will not be penalised "in any form based on the minimum attendance criteria," which was 75% until the previous academic year, 2024-25.

The notification comes more than a week after the IIT Dhanbad senate, in its September 1 meeting, approved a proposal put forward by the office-bearers of the Student Gymkhana (SG) to remove ...