Why SVNIT is giving importance to attendance than student's will to study?

People like to give the examples of US grad schools or BITS in this regard. But one has to understand that the majority students of these institutions utilize their free time in the most productive manner. Unfortunately, this is not the case with the students at most of the other colleges, including SVNIT. 

Classes are important in understanding key concepts and scoring decent grades. When attending a lecture one tends to grasp certain important keywords and concepts there and then, and it pays immensely during the exam time. 

Without a strict attendance policy one would get some time for research work or to study the important topics that aren’t included in the curriculum. 

But the reality is that most students, despite such strict attendance rules, do not attend their classes regularly. Instead, they waste all their time in gaming or other leisure activities. Then there are some who attend just enough lectures to escape punishment.

SVNIT is forced into putting such strict attendance criteria because the students would otherwise skip majority of their lectures, and waste that time in their hostel rooms doing useless things.