DU's Law faculty students hold protest, demand postponement of exams

The students of Campus Law Centre (CLC) and Law Centre I and II are holding protests. They claimed that their syllabus has not been finished yet  and exams are scheduled to start from August 10.

DU's Law faculty students hold protest, demands postponement of exams

A group of students of Delhi University's Faculty of law began a hunger strike demanding the postponement of examinations as their syllabus has not been completed until now. The protesting students of the second, fourth and sixth semesters also demanded a change in the date sheet to ensure a sufficient gap between the two papers.

The students of Campus Law Centre (CLC) and Law Centre I and II are holding protests. They claimed that their syllabus has not been finished yet and the online classes are still underway and exams have been scheduled from August 10. 

"We have begun a hunger strike until our demands are met. A few students' blood pressure has gone down. But we are not ending the strike till the administration postpones the examination," Swapnil, a law faculty student, said.

A group of students sat on dharna and held a placards that read:'Don't play with our careers' and 'We are humans not machines'. While speaking on the same, Sakhti Singh, a second-semester student at the Law Faculty, said "the students have been protesting for the last few days and even though the officials gave them assurances, nothing has happened. We have begun a hunger strike. We just want the exam to be postponed for a week so that there is enough time to prepare. The date sheet is not rightly made, there are not enough gaps between two examinations," as reported by NDTV.

Meanwhile, Dean of Examination D S Rawat said "the academic calendar was issued before the start of the semester and it mentioned the date of the examination. The university provides the academic calendar and the department prepares the date sheet accordingly. The date sheet of the PG courses is decided by the department."

"The role of the department is to check if they have followed the academic schedule issued by the registrar," he said.

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