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Delhi High Court begins hearing petition concerning online open book examination in #DelhiUniversity for final year students.

Petition is listed before Justice Prathiba Singh. The matter was earlier heard by a Division Bench on the aspect of delay in conduction of examination.

What is the status of the petitions before Supreme Court? : Court

Petitions are likely to be listed this Friday or Monday : Adv Apurva Kurup for UGC.

The petitions before the Supreme Court challenge UGC direction to colleges to mandatorily conduct final year exam.

I am challenging the manner in which the exam is being conducted: Adv for the petitioner.

Court asks UGC to place in a sealed cover the report submitted by Prof Kuhad.

Graduating people on the basis on past performance is not an option: UGC

Court asks UGC to examine if answer sheets can be evaluated by the college itself and an assignment is given to students online.

Not an issue as long as sanctity of examination is maintained: UGC

When we say online, we mean timed examination. When people take assignments home, sanctity is not maintained: UGC

At the end of the day, percentage of people who would cheat would be minimal. People who would cheat , can do so even in hard exams. Three hours is not.. OBE has so many problems: Court

They can undertake blended form: UGC

Can you allow students to come to Delhi ? : Court

The guidelines are for pan India : UGC

Look at the condition. ICMR says that it is going to peak in November. How do you expect them to conduct offline exam by September? :Court

It is not only offline examination: UGC

Counsel for Petitioner points that many colleges have opted for creative mode of examination including MCQs etc.
Traditional mode is very time taking. OBE is prima facie troublesome: Petitioner

The Division Bench is taking care of the timeline of the examination. A schedule is being set: UGC

Why is UGC saying that exam has to be conducted and then it can only be offline, online or blended? Now you are saying it should be timed. What if DU wants to conduct MCQ based? : Court

MCQ can be done. It is allowed. Globally, several exams are MCQ based: UGC

Whether DU wants to have MCQ based or not, it is upto them. I can't answer : UGC

We never directed DU to delay their examination : UGC

Counsel for the intervenor makes his submissions.

There was a survey amongst the students. The sample size is 232 students : Intervenor

Majority ie 149 favoured a presentation, assignment based examination. 28 favoured OMR based. An overwhelming majority wanted the exams in August itself. Most were against timed online examination. Majority never heard back from the grievance officer : Intervenor

Completely impractical to have timed examination. We live in the heart of Delhi and there was no electricity or connectivity for hours due to the rain : Court

Imagine the number of writ petitions that are going to come here due to number of reasons after OBE in August. DU will be struggling with it for years.. I think adminstration has collapsed and students are suffering : Court

You don't need internet continuosly. You just need it to download and upload. We are working day and night. There is no other way : Senior Adv Sachin Dutta for DU

How are others doing it? There are more than 200 universities. They have all finished it: Court

This exam requires minimum 4g connectivity.: Court

4g is not required : Senior Adv Dutta

Your brochure says so : Court

Question paper will come to your inbox: Senior Adv Dutta

The guidelines came at 11th hour. We felt more time was required to comply with them: Senior Adv Dutta on why exams were postponed.

Your own FAQ says 4g is recommended : Court

3g will be fine. As long as you can open your email: Senior Adv Dutta

There is no 3g is Kashmir. Assam has floods: Counsel for Petitioner

Give them two days to write the exam : Court

How much is the 4g penetration in our country? : Court

Why did you give a direction to DU to postpone? : Court asks Central Government.

There was a meeting and there was only an advisory to postpone if they were not ready : Adv Sunieta Ojha

Our priority is health. Mode has to be decided by the University itself: Centre

Bring the advisory on record : Court

There is no written advisory: Centre

DU has assess its own preparedness: Centre

Has to*

Question paper will be sent to each student: Senior Adv Dutta

Court begins dictating the order, notes the submissions made by the parties.

Court says that mode of exam (online, offline or blended) has to be distinguished from type of exam.

Can presentation etc be online? : Court

That's not what we intended: UGC

What kind of examination (OBE, MCQ, assignment etc) is only there is the first para of the guideline: Court

It is a general statement: UGC

Can a college opt for online assignment based examination for final year? UGC permits all types of exams as per para 1 : Court

We will take instructions : UGC

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta joins the hearing.

Para 1 of the April Guidelines lists the type of examination that can be held by a college.

Court asks UGC to consider and state whether the options of MCQ, assignments, presentation etc are available to final year students.

UGC to clarify the import of the April guidelines on the July Guidelines for conduction of final year examination.

Court observes that unlike universities cross the world, DU has not been helping its students.

There is cynicism in the petitioners: Senior Adv Dutta

There is no divergence internally between MHRD and UGC : SG Mehta

Matter to be heard day after at 2.15 pm.

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