Students to hold state-wide protest against UGC decision on exams

Mysuru: The All India Democratic Students Organisation (AIDSO) has decided to hold statewide protest on July 17 against the government’s decision to conduct online exams during the coronavirus pandemic.
AIDSO district committee president Akash Kumar BN said following University Grants Commission’s decision to hold online or offline exams for the final year students, the state government has issued an order on holding degree, post graduation and engineering exams amid pandemic.
“The state government has decided to hold CET exams for PU students on July 30 and 31. The decision is against the interest of students. We conducted a survey in 30 districts and found only 33% of students have access to internet. Of the 12,000 students questioned, 97% PU students are not prepared to write CET exams. More than 90% of final year degree, PG and engineering students are not ready to write exams in September amid the spike in Covid cases,” he said.
We request the government to cancel exams and urge the varsities to reimburse the exam fees collected fro the students, he added.