{"id":33285,"date":"2020-09-18T13:01:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T07:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=33285"},"modified":"2020-09-18T13:01:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T07:31:05","slug":"supreme-court-rules-that-students-must-sit-final-exams-in-order-to-complete-the-academic-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=33285","title":{"rendered":"Supreme court rules that students must sit final exams in order to complete their academic year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Supreme Court ruled on Friday students cannot be promoted without writing the final year or terminal semester examinations, upholding a July 6 directive of the University Grants Commission (UG).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>UGC right to make exams compulsory but states can postpone schedule: SC<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>However, states will have the liberty to defer such exams beyond the September 30 deadline in view of the coronavirus pandemic, the three-judge bench headed by justice Ashok Bhushan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cStates cannot promote students based on internal assessment or past performance. If states want to hold exams after September 30, they can approach UGC for the same,\u201d the bench said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><em>(With agency inputs)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court ruled on Friday students cannot be promoted without writing the final year or terminal semester examinations, upholding a July 6 directive of the University Grants Commission (UG). UGC right to make exams compulsory but states can postpone schedule: SC However, states will have the liberty to defer such exams beyond the September [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}