Maha: Not possible to hold final year exams
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: 09.07.2020
Stating that in the prevailing situation it would not be possible for the Maharashtra government and its universities to conduct final year examinations, Uday Samant, higher education minister of Maharashtra appealed to the ministry of human resource development on Tuesday for uniform guidelines for awarding degrees.
A day after the University Grants Commission in its revised guidelines asked the higher education institutions to conduct the examinations for final year students by September-end in offline (pen and paper)/ online/ blended mode, the Maharashtra government said that it’s not feasible and “if conducted, would endanger the well being of students, parents, teachers, supporting staff and other machinery involved in the process.”
The ministry of home affairs on Monday gave a goahead of the conduct of the terminal semester/ final year examination following which the UGC issued the revised guidelines. In his letter to Ramesh Pokhriyal, Union minister for HRD and a copy to Amit Shah, Union home minister, Samant said: “Maharashtra is the worst affected state with more than two lakh cases confirmed cases so far. In such unforeseen, uncertain and critical challenging situation, conduction of final year exams of approximately more than ten lakh students seems highly infeasible task…” He also cited that a large number of students were infected by the virus in states and countries where exams were conducted.
The minister said that Maharashtra government arrived at the decision to award degrees based on evaluation of student’s performance of previous semesters and internal assessment.
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