Central University students stage protest, demands online Exams for Backlog papers.

Central University students stage protest, demands online Exams for Backlog papers.

Srinagar August 12 (PTK) Students of Central University Kashmir (CUK) on Wednesday demanded online mode of exams for backlog papers after the varsity decided to go ahead with the offline mode of exams amid COVID pandemic.

Scores of students appeared in Press colony Srinagar and demanded that their examination must be taken on online mode due to lock down and covid-19.

University had recently issued the datesheet for conducting exams to various backlog papers of different semesters.

Protesting students said that the entire world knows we are in the grip of COVID which is taking lives on a daily basis and it was totally avoidable to conduct exams where we have to be physically present. It would have been much better and safer to conduct the exams online.

We are already under stress due to the continuous lockdown and now the University’s decision to make us sit in the exam halls amid COVID will make things worse,” said another student

Besides pandemic, they said that many students may not be able to reach the campuses due to the unavailability of transport.

Other universities have already conducted online exams, why CUK can’t, they said

They demanded that concerned authorities must look into the matter and issue an order for conduction of online examination so that students can heave a sigh of relief.(PTK)