SC to give UGC decision to hold final year exams tomorrow

A very waited final decision to given tommorow. The Supreme Court will, on Friday, articulate its decision on a clump of petitions looking for rejecting of definite year/terminal semester college assessments considering the Covid-19 pandemic.

A 3-judge seat headed by equity Ashok Bhushan will articulate its decision at 10.30 am on the legitimacy of the July 6 order of University Grants Commission (UGC) asking colleges the nation over to hold last year assessments by September 30.

A few understudies and associations had tested the July 6 rules issue by UGC refering to the hazard presented by the Covid-19 pandemic. A Covid positive understudy was one of the candidates who raised the interest for the tests to be dropped. Shiv Sena’s childhood wing Yuva Sena was additionally an applicant under the watchful eye of the court.

The applicants have requested the zenith court to consider rejecting on the web/disconnected test and rather direct UGC to proclaim results dependent on the past exhibition of the understudies or interior evaluation.

The UGC had, on April 29, distributed rules for colleges to follow with respect to holding of assessments considering the Covid-19 circumstance. According to the equivalent, assessments were to be held in July 2020. The rules were given dependent on a report by a specialist advisory group headed by Chairperson of Central University of Haryana, RC Kuhad.

The rules said that colleges could lead assessments in on the web or disconnected mode and by guaranteeing adherence to social separating rules.

Be that as it may, taking into account the developing circumstance of Covid-19 pandemic, the UGC, in June, mentioned the master panel to return to the rules. In view of the master panel’s proposals, new rules were then given on July 6, coordinating holding of assessments before the finish of September.