Students, teachers, and parents across the country are spreading their best wide to cancel final year exams. The conduct of University level exams as per revised UGC guidelines have created a state of unrest in the country. The revised guidelines by UGC have made the conduct of final year exams mandatory. All the state and central Universities are asked to conduct exams in offline, online, or blended mode.
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The UGC has issued a statement saying that the universities were approached to inform the status of the conduct of the examination. It received responses from 640 Universities, which included 120 Deemed-to-be- universities, 229 private universities, 40 central universities, and 251 state universities.
“Out of the 640 Universities, 454 Universities have either conducted the examination or are planning to conduct,” says the UGC in its statement. It stated that 182 have already conducted the examination, while 234 are planning to conduct the examination in on-line/off-line or blended mode in the month of August and September.
A total of 38 universities are planning to conduct the examination as per the directions of the relevant statutory councils like the Bar Council of India, Medical Council of India, Dental Council of India, etc.
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However, 177 universities, out of the total 640 that have responded, are yet to decide on the conduct of the examination. Parents, students, and even many teachers are opposed to the exams. “Students from different states and India Wide Parents Association to move to SC to challenge UGC guidelines,” wrote Anubha Shrivastava Sahai on Twitter
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According to the UGC’s list of universities, there are 945 universities in the country, of these 234 universities (including central, state, deemed, and private) are located in the six states which have expressed their helplessness in conducting final year examination. The states are Punjab, Maharashtra, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Delhi.
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The UGC has also stated that in the case of 27 private universities, which were established during 2019-20 to till date, the first batch is yet to become eligible for the final examination.
