Delhi Universities' FINAL YEAR EXAM CANCELLED! Check list of Universities here

Delhi government cancelled all the semester exams including final semester exams in Delhi’s state universities. Read further to know the details. 

Final Semester Exams Cancelled! Delhi government cancelled all the semester exams including final semester exams in Delhi’s state universities. In the reply to a petition challenging UGC guidelines mandating the conduct of final year exams. The state government informed the Supreme Court of their decision over the conduct of the exams.

All the Delhi State Universities received directions from the Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal to cancel all written online and offline semester examinations including final year exams. The decision to not conduct exams was taken on July 11 itself. Universities are also asked to explore alternative methods to promote students of intermediary semesters and grant degrees to students of final semesters in the same notice.

The affidavit filed by the state government informs about the decision taken by the Deputy Chief Minister/ Higher and Technical Education Minister of the National Capital Territory of Delhi that all online-offline exams of universities under the state including final year exams would be cancelled in the wake of rising COVID-19 cases, as per Bar and Bench report.

However, the affidavit also mentions that Vice Chancellors of certain universities were in favour of conducting the final year exams to the least.

The state universities under the Delhi government include:

• National Law University, NLU
• Delhi Technological University, DTU
• Ambedkar University, AU
• Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
• Netaji Subhas University of Technology, NSUT
• Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women, IGDTUW
• Delhi Pharmaceutical Science and Research University, DPSRU

Meanwhile, Delhi University is all set to begin the online open book exams for final year students from today, August 10, 2020, onwards. After much resistance and a court case, the varsity got the permission to carry on with its plan to conduct online OBE examinations from today under strict guidelines.  DU also released the guidelines for candidates who will be appearing for the exams.

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