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Recently Delhi becomes the state to cancel final-year university examinations as the non-compliance of the guidelines of University Grants Commission (UGC), the guidelines were reiterated by both the Centre and the regulatory agency that the states are legally bound by it and it must be followed.
“As per the UGC Act, State governments cannot take this decision. Unlike school education, which is on the State list, higher education is on the concurrent list. UGC and AICTE [All India Council for Technical Education] directives have to be implemented. It is there in the Act,” Higher Education Secretary Amit Khare. “It is not permissible for States to do like this. UGC does have the power to take action. First, we will try to take States on board.”
The response came from UGC after Delhi announces the cancellation of its state-level university examinations. The decision of cancelling the exam came on Saturday by Delhi.
This issue of exam cancellation is becoming political as Congress leader Rahul Gandhi asking for cancelling the exams and also few non-BJP states having already announced the final-year university exams cancelled.
However, the Union Govt. is not interested to pull-out guidelines related to exams. As a matter of fact, it was the universities and colleges who adopted the guidelines.
Additionally, the official said that as UGC is empowered by the law to take decisions and issue guidelines for conducting od examination, the state cannot take exam-related decisions on its own.
The exams were already cancelled by several other states including Punjab, Maharashtra, Odisha, West Bengal, by writing to the Centre that they do not wish to conduct the exams. The latest to join the states in cancelling university examination is Delhi.
On Monday, the UGC had directed that final year examinations must be conducted by September-end in online or offline mode. The Commission said it would tell States which had already cancelled examinations to comply with the fresh directions.
Earlier, Madhya Pradesh which already cancelled the exams, has now changed its decisions, said it will going to conduct the exams. States like Rajasthan, Haryana who have also cancelled the exams earlier are yet to take the decision, as per the fresh UGC guidelines.
UGC fresh guidelines issued in April
On April 27, the UGC directed all the universities to conduct exams amid pendamic. The universities will have to be conducted the examination of final-year by September-end, it was reiterated by HRD minister on Monday(July 6), postponing the exmas schedule from July because of a rise in COVID-19 cases.
According to revised guidelines issued by UGC, in the view of COVID-19 situation in the country, those students who are unable to present in final-year exams in September will get another chance and the universities will conduct special exams "as and when feasible".
The decision of conducting the exams by the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) which was approved by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, was taken by the HRD Ministry was came with the affirmation of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA)
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