The Delhi University has postponed the exams for the final year, end semester students and said that it will now begin on June 7. The exams were scheduled to be held from May 15. However, due to the rising COVID-19 cases in the national capital, the exams were deferred till June 1. The university, in an official order on Thursday, said that it will soon release the new date sheet.
"The new date sheets shall be released soon and shall be available on the website of the University of Delhi. The detailed guideline regarding the May/June 2021 examination will be issued in due course of time," Dean of Examinations D S Rawat said in a notice.
The exams will be held online and in the open-book format.
The revised, complete date sheet for final year exams will be available on DU's exam portal, exam.du.ac.in.
Mr Rawat said that since there has been a lockdown, people are not coming and the date sheets could not be uploaded in time. "Today we have uploaded them.
As a rule, we have to give students time to prepare. Teachers had been given time till May 13 to prepare and submit question papers and we are pursuing them. Many of them have submitted (question papers)," he said.
Mr Rawat ruled out the possibility of the exams being postponed further. The decision to push the exams from June 1 to June 7 was taken in a meeting held on Wednesday and it was attended by heads of departments, and other senior varsity officials, he said.
Several students and teachers of Delhi University had earlier raised concerns regarding the conduct of exams amid the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Delhi University Teachers' Association had written to acting vice-chancellor Professor PC Joshi over the issue. "The university must take a sensitive view of the situation that students and teachers find themselves in -- no one is in a position to write or conduct examinations at this moment.
"Hence, we request you to consider cancelling examinations for all students and decide upon alternative means to evaluate students. Deadlines for submission of internal assessment must be extended," they had said in a letter dated April 30.
(With PTI inputs)
