UGC releases revised guidelines for academic calendar 2020-21; check dates

All the universities will follow a six-day week pattern for the academic session 2020-21

The University Grants Commission (UGC) on Tuesday released guidelines for the academic calendar for the first-year of under-graduate and post-graduate students of colleges and universities for the session 2020-21 in view of Covid-19 pandemic.

The statutory authority also released the tentative calendar for first-year university students of under-graduate (UG), and post-graduate (PG) courses for the session 2020-21. Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal shared the UGC session calendar on Twitter, earlier in the day.

According to the UGC calendar, the academic session for the fresh batch will start from November, and the delay is likely to impact the next academic