Opposing UGC's decision to conduct exams over pandemic: Students to SC

A bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, R Subhash Reddy and M R Shah has started final hearing through video conferencing on a batch of petitions challenging the UGC's decision to hold the final exams

Nobody is against the university examinations in normal times and the students are challenging the decision of the UGC to conduct them because of the pandemic, the Supreme Court was told by the counsel for students on Friday.

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has told the top court that the final examination is a crucial step in the academic career of a student and the state government cannot say that its July 6 directive, asking universities and colleges to conduct final year examinations by September 30 amid the Covid-19 pandemic, was not binding.

A bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, R Subhash Reddy