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Delhi High Court begins hearing petitions concerning online open book examination for final year DU students.

Matter listed before Justices Hima Kohli and Subramonium Prasad.

#DU #OBE #DelhiUniversity

Court is considering the issue of declaration of results for final year students.

We have received 900 applications for comfort letters. We have sorted 292 emails, out of which 14 are from PG: Prof Rawat

Is it for Indian universities as well? : Court

I don't know. Have to check if 900 applications include requests for Indian universities also: Prof Rawat

Didn't UGC say that indian universities will not insist on results even after Sept 30?: Court

We are only concentrating on foreign universities. The Court may clarify that. We have limited man power. We have to work towards declaration of results too: Adv M Rupal for DU.

Adv Rupal says that a deadline may be given till when the students can apply for issuance of comfort letters to foreign universities.

Your Notification is open ended: Court

Time may be given till Friday: DU

By the end of this month, we will complete the evaluation of PG students who want to go abroad: Prof Rawat

That's only 15 students. Assuming if it becomes 50, end of this month is too much. Can we ask you to declare their confidential result by September 25?: Court

That's not possible: Prof Rawat

Okay 30 Sept is the last date for declaration of results of PG students who have applied to foreign universities: Court

We have a portal. Student can access there: Adv Rupal

We will send the result : Prof Rawat

Not send, declare the result: Court

Yes, we can do : Prof Rawat

Is LLB V semester result available? : Court

It is possible but they want me to verify: Prateek Sharma

Why is it subject to verification?: Court

We can put a stamp and verification: Prof Rawat

Put a digital signature. It is good enough: Court

Okay: Prof Rawat

When will you send the comfort letter as per the format approved by the Grievance Committee? : Court

UG we can send. PG scripts are to be evaluated: Prof Rawat

Those who are on a deadline can we sent : Prof Rawat

277 application are from UG. Those them, you release in two days. For PG, you are declaring results by Sept 30: Court

We have to make a program for the format of comfort letter: Prof Rawat

You do it on priority basis then so that no student suffers: Court

Intimate the students that comfort letter has been sent : Adv Rupal

Students must be informed that they have been provisionally passed: Adv Kamal Gupta from GRC.

The entire life of students would be prejudiced. It is an Article 21 issue. I'm sad to see that Delhi University asked the Court to have an in camera hearing: Adv Amir Pasrich for a student

We have faith in the judges. The request doesn't smell good. We're dealing with 1% of the university. They are capable of giving results for all of us in 10 days: Adv Pasrich

Difficulty is that I've seen the affidavits and I don't see the criteria as to why results can't be declared for them: Adv Pasrich

It's not working. We've considered everything: Court

Nobody understands comfort letter outside India : Adv Pasrich

Whatever has to be done, has to be done across the board. There is a genuine difficulty. We can only tighten the schedule: Court

Court records the submissions of the parties.

Prof Rawat, Dean of examination has assured that the letter for UG students containing their provisional results shall be sent on priority basis to foreign universities depending on cut off dates: Court records

For PG students who are seeking admission in foreign universities and applied to DU for comfort letters, results shall be declared on or before 28 Sept. Result to be declared on web portal: Court

Students can download the result from the portal.

DU is directed to issue letter saying the cut off date for receiving requests for comfort letter is September 18: Court

Court questions how much time would it take to collate UG results.

It takes time: Prof Rawat

Court notes that the entire process of evaluation is online.

When did you dispatch the answer sheet? : Court

It started on August 24: Prof Sanjeev Singh

Why can't it be declared by Sept 30 then?: Court

Email submissions are to be verified for duplication. Integration with portal is going on it and it is a tedious process. Thousands of emails were received. 35% emails have been integrated. 40 people are working on it : Prof Sanjeev Singh

Today is just the 15th. You are saying most are duplicates of what was submitted on the portal so they need not be checked: Court

On OBE portal, more than 60% evaluation is done: Prof Sanjeev Singh.

Why can't be wrap it up by first and second week of October? Court can only request: Court

We pursuing it with the examiners. Portal will give the matrix and the moderation etc has to be done : Prof Sanjeev Singh

Does moderation need physical intervention?: Court

Moderation is different from arrival of mean and standard deviation. Moderation is physical: Adv Rupal

Earlier, examiner used to sit together and extreme marking was avoided. Now everyone is checking in their own house and doing it on their own. For the benefit of students, marks are to be later scaled. Thereafter grading takes place : Senior Adv BB Gupta from GRC

Moderation is for students who are failing: Prof Rao

Okay, we are not on all this. We are on the deadline : Court

How much time will moderation take?: Court

I can't say anything on declaring results by first week of October: Prof Rawat

Court had given us time till Sept 22 to come up with the timeline: Adv Rupal

We have to review everything. All departments have to work in coordination: Adv Rupal

In view of the procedure this year which entailed emailing of answer sheets, teachers are required to email the results to Examination Branch. Whereafter, results are moderated and then graded : Court records

Court records submissions on the sorting of duplicate results and status of evaluation as informed by Du.

Keeping in mind the balance work left, it is directed that DU shall issue letters to Principals of all colleges to emphasize the urgency in the matter and request that evaluation be expedited so that results can be declared by first week of October 2020: Court orders

Court directs that hearing be adjourned till September 22.

Court master says it's a physical hearing date.

Matter will be taken up on September 21.

There are to a letter to enable students to apply for visas: Senior Adv BB Gupta from GRC.

For UG students who are going abroad, DU shall confirm having sent the comfort letter to the concerned student and say that he/she has been provisionally passed : Court

The deadline of October first week is physically not possible: Adv Rupal

Let them say that. Come on the next date: Court

Matter to be heard next on September 23.

Hearing concludes..