Kerala University to conduct additional test for students who can't appear in July exams

The varsity informed the High Court that it will be giving the absentees another chance later once the exams are finished. 

The Kerala University will be conducting additional exams for students who could not appear for the University exams that started today i.e. July 1, 2020. The varsity informed the High Court that it will be giving the absentees another chance later once the exams are finished. 

"Such exams will be treated as special examinations and no additional fee will be collected for the same. Also, the special examination will not be treated as a supplementary examination and will have the legal status of an ordinary examination," the University of Kerala said.

The single bench of Justice CS Dias has turned down the pleas seeking directions to the varsity to stay the Kerala University exams which are scheduled from July 1. The court at the same time has asked the Vice-Chancellor of the Kerala University to take a decision by June 30 about the representations filed by the petitioner students.

"As the scope of judicial review in the scheduling of the examination is very limited, and the fact that the students who are willing to appear and write the examination have not been impleaded at leas in their representative capacity and since the examinations are to commence from July 1, 2020, and further for the elaborate arrangements and reasons pleaded by the university in the statements filed before this court, I decline to pass an ad-interim order to stay the examinations," the bench read its order.

The court on Tuesday had considered two writ petitions - one which was filed by 23 Postgraduate students and the other that was filed by a sixth-semester law student of the law academy.

The senior advocate George Poonthottam submitted that the scheduling of the exams, without the required number of teaching days, is of no use and is arbitrary. "As per the UGC regulations, there has to be a minimum of 90 teaching days; but the semester had only 29 days due to suspension of classes since March 9 on account of COVID-19," Poonthottam, the senior advocate for PG exams said in the court. 

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