Supreme Court Accepted the Petition Against UGC’s Guidelines, UGC to reply in 3 Days.

On July 6^th, 31 students filed a petition before the hon’ble supreme court against the revised UGC’s guideline on the final year exams, which has been accepted today by a bench headed by the Justice Ashok Bhushan and UGC to reply in 3 days, the next hearing is on July 31.

   But it’s not final news for the students, as they are still stuck in the swamp with one leg in and one out. Now, it’ll be interesting to see that by which reason UGC comes before the Hon’ble Supreme Court. 

Now it’ll be esoteric to see that, UGC really care about the life of students or they will favour with the career of students?

FAQ

What are the issues raised in a petition?

As per the news agency PTI the petition contains, the situations of the students which are located in the pandemic regions od COVID19, many of stuck in the floods Asam and Bihar and many states already cancelled the exams due to the COVID19 pandemic.

The core demand of the petitioners is to cancel the final year exam and evaluate them on the basis of past performance, as the situation of the COVID19 pandemic is worsened day by day and its arbitrary to conduct the exam in pandemic crisis. 

Petitioner also raised the issue of the final year students who will be deprived of precious opportunities of getting admission in higher courses and/getting job due to such belated award of the mark sheets or degrees, which will be again a violation of Article 14 equality before law.

The petition again raised the issue of cancelling the exam with the supportive examples of the different boards, including CBSC and ICSE which had previously cancelled the remaining exams and awarded the marks to the students on the basis of past performances.

On the one hand, UGC rewarded the intermediate semester students on the basis of past performance and internal assessments and on another hand, they enforcing final year students to appear in the examination which is utterly discrimination of the students of final year, hence it’s a violation of Article 14 of the constitution.

What is the situation of Maharashtra?

Is amidst of the pandemic COVID19, Maharashtra Government already scraped the final year exams and released the guideline for the evaluation of the students by the alternate methods and also given to opportunity to the students who want good academic scores.

What makes the situation is confusing to the students?

Last month Maharashtra comes with the guideline to pass all the students irrespective of the year, but thereafter UGC came with the revised guidelines for the final year students which still date confusing to the students and mentally harassing them and their parents, amid of increasing cases of COVID19 patients. And in the reply of the UGC before the Hon'ble Bombay Highcourt remarked that "State governments have no power to cancel the exams". 

Therefore, the situation is kind of the swamp to the students and their parents.