New Delhi: The final year exams for Maharashtra students continue to be a question mark as the state cannot come to a common ground with All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) or the University Grants Commission (UGC). And now, AICTE has urged the Bombay High Court to not cancel the final year exams and go ahead with either online, offline, or blended mode of examination. In addition, there is also a revised schedule issue by AICTE for final year graduation and PG Diploma students.
UGC has been bent on not cancelling the final semester exams for students who will be graduating this year. While this was issued on July 6, the guidelines also suggested that these exams must be conducted by September.
Now, an affidavit has been filed by AICTE in response to a PIL that was filed by Pune’s Dhananjay Ragunath Kulkarni and a retired professor with the help of advocate Uday Warunjikar. The affidavit states that UGC regulated such this matter, thereby not empowering the state to decide basis of assessment for the final year students, and hence, the government resolution from June 19 must be set aside.
It was last week on July 17 that the state government restated how it cannot allow final year exams to be conducted in Maharashtra due to the pandemic situation in the country. The division bench was led by Chief Justice Dipankar Datta. Now, affidavits are supposed to be filed by other respondent education in response to the pleas that challenge the government resolution.
As per an affidavit which has been filed by the wester regional office of AICTE through Ajeet Singh has already stated how it is going to follow the guidelines as have been issued by the UGC and how it also focuses on the necessity of taking exams apart form the fact that it also considers the interest of students.
The AICTE has thereby made things clear by further requesting the concerned bodies to conduct the final year exams. In addition to that, it has also asked the institutes and universities to comply with the revised guidelines from UGC for conducting final year exams.
