Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray to meet University Vice Chancellors, will discuss conduct of Final Exams

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray will have a video conference meeting with the vice Chancellor of Maharashtra based Universities to discuss about holding the final semester exam in the next few days. 

This Video conference meeting has been confirmed by the Minister of Higher and Technical Education and Technical Education in Maharashtra, Uday Samant. The video conference will be held during the afternoon session.

Decision for Final Semester and year exams are yet pending for all Universities of Maharashtra. As of now, Maharashtra Government has not framed any decision as to whether the final year/ semester exam will be held or not. 

Earlier, the State Higher Education Minister had urged to consider promotion of students into the next academic year based on the previous internal assessment test, to UGC. However, according to the recent guidelines released by UGC, final year students will have to attend the exams compulsorily; across the country.

The final decision regarding the exams are they to be taken and are likely to be discussed with the Maharashtra’s CM with their university VC’s. As per the tentative figures. about 35 Lakhs students are yet to appear for the pending semester exam in Maharashtra. Students have expressed their concerns to the state government and other educational bodies regarding their future dilemma.

Not only students, but parents have also reached out to the government agencies regarding the health of the students.as it may increase the exposure of the students to coronavirus during the exams. These issues and topics shall be discussed in the meeting along with final semester exam dates and set of guidelines of how to follow them.