Maharashtra governor hits out at Uddhav Thackeray's decision to cancel university exams

Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari on Tuesday said that the decision on conducting the final year examination is with Vice-Chancellors of universities as per the Maharashtra Public Universities Act, reports Times of India. Thus, the decision of cancelling the final year exam taken by Chief Minister Uddav Thackeray was not fair to the graduating batch of the year 2020.

Earlier on Saturday, the CM had announced that the final year exam this year for all the universities in the state will be cancelled and scoring will be done based on internal assessment and performance in previous semesters/years. Students who wish to improve the scores can appear in the exam that will be conducted in the month of October.

The governor termed the decision of the CM as unprecedented and said it was made without any profound thinking on legal repercussions, adds the report. The governor said that the final decision regarding the conduct of the exam for the final year will be taken in consonance with the provision of the Act.