Supreme Court will be conducting a hearing today on pleas opposing UGC’s guidelines to universities to conduct the final year examination b...
Supreme Court will be conducting a hearing today on pleas opposing UGC’s guidelines to universities to conduct the final year examination before September 30. In the previous hearing on August 14, parties who are opposing the guidelines issued by the UGC made a case for the postponement.
A different bench in SC yesterday dismissed the petition to postpone the JEE Main and NEET 2020 exam scheduled in the month of September. The bench said that any postponement of the exam will put the careers of the students in peril. It also said that it has taken account of the NTA’s preparedness for the exam and said that Court has no grounds to interfere on the policy decision.
In the previous hearing for UGC guidelines case, Advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi who was representing 31 students who had filed the plea, argued that the cases of COVID-19 is increasing exponentially and conduct of exams would affect the health of the students. He also highlighted the MHA’s stance that all educational institutions must remain closed since the onset of the pandemic.
Senior Counsel Shyam Divan who was representing Yuva Sena also pointed out the MHA guidelines on educational institutions and said that these guidelines are the minimum standards and states...
