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The decision of the HRD Ministry of Union Govt, and the UGC 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. (1/n)
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.
(2/n)
(2/n)
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 (3/n)
The MVA has decided a formula based on being fair and just:
• Students to be passed on aggregate of their past performance in past semesters
• those still feeling that they must do more can always appear for exams, by their own choice, when exams can be held.
(4/n)
• Students to be passed on aggregate of their past performance in past semesters
• those still feeling that they must do more can always appear for exams, by their own choice, when exams can be held.
(4/n)
It seems that while the entire country- Union Govt, State Govts, ULBs and Panchayats are trying to manage covid, reduce new cases and save lives, the HRD Ministry and UGC wants to just do the opposite
