Begin Final year students physical exams on September 14: Delhi HC to DU

Delhi High Court has asked to analyse the number of students who wish to sit for the examination physically.

Delhi High Court has asked the University of Delhi to begin its examinations for the final year students on September 14, even when the University had requested that it will be too short a time and will put immense pressure on the available manpower. A Bench of Justice Hima Kohli and Subramonium Prasad enquired from the counsel for Delhi University, Sachin Datta, the date the varsity is planning to conduct the examinations physically for those who did not opt for the online mode of Open Book Examination. To which, Datta told the court that the University will commence the physical examinations only after September 20. However, in the court’s opinion, this date was “quite unreasonable”.

Earlier, the varsity had said that on the bases of the number of students who have appeared for the online mode of examination, they will get a clear idea on how many students are remaining to appear for the pen-and-paper mode exam. The court in its order said, “By now, the online OBE mode of examinations has been conducted for an entire week. There should have been enough data thrown up for the University to analyse the number of students who intend to sit for the examination physically…”

During the hearing, the University also earned the court’s ire when a Grievance Redressal Committee (GRC) member, BB Gupta, informed the court that the University shared with the chairperson in a sealed cover the password of data relating to grievances of students at 11.50 am on Monday.

The court had in its last hearing directed the University to conduct the meetings of the GRC, headed by a retired Delhi High Court judge, which was challenged by DU.

Justice Kohli told Datta, “If this is the kind of rigmarole you will indulge in then it is pathetic. What kind of conduct is this? It took you one week to file an appeal. In the meantime, you made sure that one way or the other you won’t let the committee function.”

Datta told the court, “An atmosphere of suspicion is created as if the professors are pitted against a former Judge. It is not so.”

The High court then asked the varsity to put the complaints received and stated to have been satisfactorily addressed by the Grievance Officer before the Committee and furnish the name and details of grievance officers directly to Gupta.

DU has also been directed to create an email ID where students applying to foreign Universities can send their details so that the DU can send a request letter directly to the concerned Universities.

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