The University Grants Commission (UGC) Chairman Professor Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar is set to go live in an interaction with students and faculties today, October 4. The UGC live interaction, Samvad, will begin at 4:30 pm on the commission's YouTube Channel, FaceBook and UGC Twitter account. The UGC on Monday, October 3, had asked students, teaching and non-teaching staffs, colleges and universities to send questions regarding the e-Samadhaan Portal -- samadhaan.ugc.ac.in.
Questions and queries have been pouring into the official Twitter handle of UGC as part of the UGC Chairman's live interaction. While several have been asking about grants for higher studies, many are anxious about the CUET UG answer key of September 11 exam. Another has asked the UGC Chairman to align the academic session with the examination calendar.
“Kindly make examination calendar in line with academic session. Late examinations and results gives unwanted anxiety to students,” a student posted.
Another one added: "One Nation, One Exam. Why not one counseling and one counseling fee."
The UGC's e-Samadhaan Portal is a grievance redressal mechanism to facilitate students, teaching and non-teaching staffs, colleges to lodge grievances, send reminders, and view the status of action taken about their grievances online.
While another post said: "More categories of complaints should be placed in the e-Samdhan portal. There are many types of problems in universities, suitable category for them is not available in the portal, There are many universities where there is no grievance redressal cell ."