Students all over India are signing a petition that aims to reach PM Narendra Modi, seeking the cancellation of the final-year exams in colleges and universities this year.
n online petition has been circulating that has been launched by the Joint Forum for Movement on Education, JFME. This petition aims to request for the cancellation of final-year exams in universities all over India.
The students are unhappy over UGC’s new guidelines that allow varsities to hold the final year exams. The JFME has decided to reach out to Prime Minister Narendra Modi with their demands.
Aim of the cancellation of final year exams petition
The petition was started on the online portal change.org and after it has collected 1000 signatures, the petition for the cancellation of final year exams will be submitted to the prime minister.
The students have been protesting for quite some time now on the colleges conducting exams even during the health crisis the nation is facing.
What does the JFME petition say?
The petition reads, "In this context, the recently released 'UGC Revised Guidelines on Examinations and Academic Calendar for the Universities in view of Covid-19 Pandemic', propose illogical and unacademic solutions for evaluating and granting degrees to students."
As per the students, the UGC cannot provide them with fresh and safe air along with equal opportunities to all students.
Instead, the petition focuses on the online mode of exams to be a more viable solution to the problem. But both the exam modes have their own issues.
“Other forms of credible and meaningful assessment like internal/continuous assessment and/or average scores of past semesters would meet the criteria of fairness and integrity better," reads the petition in favor of alternative modes of assessment.
TN final year exams 2020 cancelled Recently, the Tamil Nadu government has decided to cancel the intermediate semester exams which have drawn the ire of final year students. They have just one question to the
government: Why not the final year students too? Students praise the CMO The students have also praised the CMO for taking the move but the final-year students are furious over the inequality they are facing in a similar situation. According to the students, even the final-semester students will be appearing for the exams in a similar situation. Some of the students have also asked the UGC to follow the same move and refresh the guidelines again by cancelling the final year exams across India. Are students happy with the new UGC guidelines? The students are indeed not happy over the exams been called off for only intermediate students. Due to the rising number of coronavirus cases, the students are extremely scared to appear for the exams. Recently the KEAM exam was conduct
ed where more than 5 students have been found infected with Covid-19.
Read: Final-year exams already held or being planned for in 603 out of 818 universities: UGC
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