Truancy menace: Institutions’ managements need to fasten belts

Misconduct of truancy/bunking classes by students at all levels of education and its subsequent fallouts has been reported world over as one of the major problems for all stakeholders. Manifestations of truancy are indeed very serious and open floodgates for problems at later stages and hence truancy incidences need to be arrested from the very early stages itself A complex set of waxed factors - home, institution and individual - have been identified, which affect attraction and retention of students in academic institutions. Paradoxically none of the stakeholder squarely shoulders even its own responsibility for this perennial truancy menace among students but keeps on passing buck to others. Present investigation is a modest attempt to ponder over such critical institutional’factors responsible for truancy among UG management students in different colleges affiliated to a State University, which are certainly within the easy reach of the ‘promoters and management’ of the institutions to act upon. Authors have also suggested certain intervention strategies required to arrest the menace of bunking misconduct among truant students.