Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari on Friday took a firm objection with the state government’s proposal to avoid the assessment of final year students.
In a letter to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, Governor Koshyari communicated his issue with Higher Education Minister Uday Samant’s letter to University Grants Commission several days prior to prescribing it to skip assessment of the final year students. Governor Koshyari has requested that Thackeray settle the issue “immediately in the bigger enthusiasm of students”.
“Not directing the final year assessments by the Universities adds up to a break of the UGC guidelines and furthermore the applicable arrangements of the Maharashtra Public Universities Act, 2016,” Governor Koshyari expressed in the letter.
He likewise asked CM Uddhav Thackeray to issue “appropriate” guidelines to Minister Uday Samant for his “ridiculous intercession“.
Governor Koshyari composed that he was not informed by Samant before suggesting the wiping out of final year assessments to the UGC.
The Governor of Maharashtra additionally called attention to arrangements of the pertinent Universities Act that engage colleges to hold assessments and present degrees upon effective students.
“It would not be moral or proper to grant degrees to final year students without directing their assessments, which brings about the infringement of the arrangements of the Universities’ Act,” Governor Koshyari’s letter said.
Likewise, the Governor additionally saw that accepting degrees by students without undertaking any sort of assessments would adversely affect their higher investigations, graduation, and employability alternatives.
Governor Koshyari brought up that the Union Home Ministry has conceded exception from lockdown measures to the State Education Boards/CBSE/ICSE and so forth to direct Standard X and XII assessments. The UGC has additionally given guidelines on lockdown estimates covering significant measurements identified with assessments and the scholarly schedule of the university.
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