AIDSO seeks postponement of VSKU degree, PG exams

Considering the second wave of COVID-19 and the resultant lockdown that had affected academic activities in the State, the Ballari district unit of All India Democratic Students Organisation (AIDSO) h

Considering the second wave of COVID-19 and the resultant lockdown that had affected academic activities in the State, the Ballari district unit of All India Democratic Students Organisation (AIDSO) has demanded that the Vijayanagar Sri Krishnadevaraya University (VSKU) postpone its undergraduate and postgraduate examinations scheduled to begin on Monday. Office-bearers of the organisation met the university authorities on Thursday and expressed their opposition to what they called “rigidity and hurriedness of the university in conducting the examinations without giving enough time to students for preparations”. “All the universities in the State have scheduled the examinations for the undergraduate and postgraduate degrees for August and the VSKU is displaying its rigidity and hurridness in conducting the examinations from July 26. Students could not attend classes during the lockdown and many of them even lost their close relatives and parents to the pandemic. Those who worked as agricultural labour and construction workers for the last two-three months owing to the closure of educational institutions have just now resumed their studies after the academic activities began. They cannot go and write the examinations right away. The VSKU should conduct revision classes for them and then conduct the examinations,” said district president of the organisation Guralli Raja.