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Tribune News Service
New Delhi, August 28
Students can't be promoted without holding final-year examinations by September 30, as fixed by the University Grants Commission (UGC), the Supreme Court ruled today.
Edit: Final-year exams on course
"The state and university cannot promote the students in the final year/terminal semester without holding final-year/terminal examination," a three-judge Bench led by Justice Ashok Bhushan said, refusing to quash the UGC's July 6 revised guidelines.
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'Weighing options'
I have told our Education Minister to look into the possibility of holding final-year exams before Durga Pujahellip; We are just saying the pandemic can put lives of students at risk.
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The top court made it clear that the UGC's July 6 guidelines cannot be ignored as just being an advisory.
However, it ruled that a state disaster management authority can postpone final-year examinations under the National Disaster Management Act. But in such a situation, fresh dates would have to be worked out in consultation with the UGC, it added.
For any exemption from the UGC guidelines, states would have to seek permission from the commission, said the Bench, which had earlier refused to stay the UGC's July 6 circular on the issue.
Apart from some students, Yuva Sena, the youth wing of the Shiv Sena, and governments of Maharashtra, West Bengal, Odisha and Delhi had questioned the UGC's July 6 circular asking universities to conduct final-year examinations by September 30.
These states maintained that students could be promoted without examination in view of the extraordinary situation due to the Covid-19 pandemic. On behalf of the UGC, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta had argued that universities can seek extension of the deadline but they can't take a decision to confer degrees without holding examinations.
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