Key Points :
- The students of JNTU protest against exams and boycott online classes too.
They are also planning to conduct a Digital Candle March. - Students have been boycotting the classes since September 25 .
- The students have also said that they do not want to continue preparing for two semesters parallelly, they want only one semester to happen at a time.
- For various courses, the semester end exams will be starting from the last week of October .
evaluated based on their internal marks for all inter-semester students.
JNTUH is conducting the final exams for the previous semesters for all the students, on the contrary some autonomous colleges affiliated to the university are conducting internal exams for the current semester.
As per the information, students have been boycotting the classes since September 25 .
Students inform the class to “boycott the exams in the pandemic” after logging in and then log off right after saying this . There are private Institutes who have a zero attendance record as the students have not been attending the classes.
It is not at all fair….As a student who is listeing and learning 2nd year from two months…now howcan we go back and write 1 year exam it is so unfair. Nits IITs every where the students are promoted . It's so unfair
— Aravind Goud (@Aravind63186521) September 26, 2020
Speaking to The News Minute, Ganesh , who is a final-year student, spoke about the issue where even central technical institutions like NITs (National Institute of Technology) and IITs (Indian Institute of Technology) have evaluated students based on the marks from the previous internal assessments, while JNTUH on the opposite side is going ahead with the exams for the inter-semester students.
Ganesh also added,
“We have now entered the second semester for the final year and the online classes are going on. This is one crucial phase where we have project works, placements, final semester exams and this is our last opportunity to clear our backlogs too. For some colleges under the University, even the internal exams (mid-exams) schedule has been released and the exams in various (online and offline) modes are starting from September 29 for the current semester. How are we supposed to write exams for the previous semester now.”
Govt promoted all students and nowuniversitieswantto conduct, We believe in a peaceful protest of not joining the online classes#boycottonlineclasses#canceljntuhexams @ktrtrs @sabithaindratrs @telanganaCMO @trspartyonline@KTRoffice @AICTE_INDIA
— Ganesh against universities (@canceljntuexam) September 26, 2020
Another student Rakesh said, “If all the semester students are writing this exam, the number of students would significantly increase, so is the chance of spreading coronavirus. If we go and write an exam, we are putting our entire family at risk and most of them have senior citizens at home. When there is a clear option by UGC to assess students based on internal marks, why is JNTUH not following the same?”
TNM hasn’t got any response from the university’s side too. Students have also said that they do not want to continue preparing for two semesters parallelly, they want only one semester to happen at a time.
Meanwhile, for various courses the semester end exams are starting in the last week of October .
