UGC Guidelines: Aditya Thakeray slams MHRD on its decision to conduct final exams amid Covid-19 – education

Maharashtra Cupboard Minister Aaditya Thackeray on Friday slammed the Ministry of Human Useful resource Improvement (HRD) after the UGC introduced that the final 12 months examinations within the universities might be held in September. He known as the Ministry’s decision ‘completely absurd and possibly from an alternate universe.’

Taking to Twitter, Thackeray stated, “The decision of the HRD Ministry of Union Govt, and the UGC is completely absurd and possibly from an alternate universe. I urge UGC to not make this a foolish difficulty of egos and realise that lakhs of lives of scholars, lecturers, non-educating workers are at stake.”

He cornered the Ministry and UGC for “not realising the rising variety of COVID-19 circumstances within the nation.”

“Until the HRD Ministry and UGC take accountability for the well being of every pupil showing for exams, one wonders what’s the assure other than simply that the ministry and UGC don’t realise the rising variety of circumstances in India,” Thackeray stated.

“Psychological stress, incomplete syllabus, the best danger to college students and lecturers, however whereas the highest universities of the world skip exams, our HRD Ministry and UGC implement exams on college students. Nowhere on the earth is tutorial excellence dependent on 1 examination, apart from our HRD and UGC,” added Thackeray in his tweet.

Giving the instance, Thackeray stated, “The MVA (Maha Vikas Aghadi) has determined a system primarily based on being truthful and simply — college students to be handed on the mixture of their previous efficiency in previous semesters, and people nonetheless feeling that they have to do extra can all the time seem for exams, by their very own alternative, when exams may be held.”

Accusing the HRD Ministry of not working along with the state authorities, Maharashtra Cupboard Minister added, “It appears that evidently whereas your entire country- Union Authorities, State Governments, ULBs and Panchayats are attempting to handle COVID, cut back new circumstances and save lives, the HRD Ministry and UGC needs to simply do the other.”

The UGC on Monday issued revised tips on examinations and tutorial calendars for the colleges in view of COVID-19 and introduced that the final 12 months examinations within the universities might be held in September.

“The terminal semester(s)/final 12 months(s) examinations be performed by the colleges/establishments by finish of September 2021 in offline (pen & paper)/on-line/blended (on-line+ offline) mode,” learn the UGC guideline.