IIT Kharagpur semester exams 2022 to be held via offline and online mode

Director VK Tewari organised an open-house discussion at Tagore Open Air Theatre after 8,000-odd students assembled at the institute’s main building demanding a change in the decision to hold the exams offline from April 7 to 14.

IIT Kharagpur Semester Exams 2022: After facing a strong protest against its decision to conduct semester exams via offline mode, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur has reversed its decision. The protest among students began after learning that the institute is mulling to hold the end-semester exams only in the physical mode.

Students demanded open-house discussion with IIT Kharagpur Director

Following the protest, an open-house session between the IIT Kharagpur director and the students took place on Monday night. The discussion led to a decision that students would be given the option to write the exam either offline or online.

Director VK Tewari organised an open-house discussion at Tagore Open Air Theatre after 8,000-odd students assembled at the institute’s main building demanding a change in the decision to hold the exams offline from April 7 to 14.

On March 8, the institute directed the students to report to the campus by March 31 so they could write the end-semester exams offline. However, amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic situation, the institute conducted classes online for the ongoing spring semester.

A section of students then wrote to the director, saying it would be financially difficult for them to come to the campus for a fortnight, go home after the exams and return to campus again for the new semester.

The protest started when the institute refused to meet students' demands.

At the open house, the director proposed that students who were already on campus could write the exams offline and the others would be called later to write the papers.

“But the students did not agree to this. They said final-year students would not be able to graduate until their exams were held, which would lead to delays in joining their places of work or pursuing higher studies,” an IIT official said.

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