Mumbai: The Shiv Sena’s youth wing Yuva Sena on Saturday (July 18, 2020) moved the supreme court seeking cancellation of the final year exams of universities across states in view of the COVID-19 crisis.
“Today Yuva Sena has filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court with a humble prayer to save lives of lakhs of students, teachers, non teaching staff and their families by asking the UGC to not be stubborn about enforcing examinations when India has crossed the 10 lakh cases mark,” tweeted Thackeray in a series of tweets.
“We believe that academic excellence can’t be judged by 1 examination and for academic excellence, we must calculate the aggregate marks of the past semesters. Beyond which, if students still feel the need to appear for an examination, they voluntarily may do so post covid,” he further said. The Yuva Sena has demanded all states be given the right to take an appropriate decision based on the prevailing situation in their respective areas.
The youth wing is headed by Aaditya Thackeray who holds environment and tourism portfolios in the Shiv Sena-led state government. The state government has already cancelled the final year/final semester examinations for professional and non- professional courses.
Referring to the University Grant Commission (UGC)’s circular asking states to conduct the final year exams, Sardesai said it was impossible to do so amid apprehensions about the spread of infection in state like Maharashtra which has 10 lakh students.
He claimed that the Yuva Sena had obtained more than two lakh signatures seeking cancellation of exams during an online campaign. “Yuva Sena under leadership of Aaditya Thackeray wrote letters to the UGC and Union HRD ministry to highlight the issue but has got no response,” he added.
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