UGC, HRD ministry from alternate universe: Aaditya
July 10, 2020  17:23
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Maharashtra's minister for tourism and environment Aaditya Thackeray says the decision of the HRD Ministry of the Union government, and the University Grants Commission, "is absolutely absurd and probably from an alternate universe."

"I urge UGC to not make this a silly issue of egos and realise that lakhs of lives of students, teachers, non teaching staff are at stake. Unless, the HRD Ministry and UGC take responsibility for the health of each student appearing for exams, one wonders what is the guarantee apart from just that the ministry and UGC don't realise the growing number of cases in India. 

"Mental stress, incomplete syllabus, highest risk to students and teachers, but while the top universities of the world skip exams, our HRD Ministry and UGC enforce exams on students. Nowhere in the world is academic excellence dependent on 1 exam, other than our HRD & UGC."

The UGC, after being asked by the Education Ministry to review its exam guidelines, released revised guidelines to conduct university exams for the final semester/year. The Commission has set the deadline to conduct final year exams by September 30.

The Commission maintained its previous order that Universities may go for pen-paper exam, online exam, or a blended form of both.

UGC justified its decision to go ahead with the exams citing examples of several top ranking universities in the world like Princeton, MIT, University of Cambridge, Imperial College of London, University of Toronto and McMaster, University of Heidelberg and University of Hong Kong that have resorted to the online technology-based mode of examinations.
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