CHENNAI: The
AICTE(All India Council For Technical Education) on Wednesday informed the Madras excessive courtroom docket that the
Tamil Naduauthorities’s order cancel ling arrear
assessmentsfor engineering college students is towards norms and ranges will now no longer be offered to college students who've now no longer cleared their backlogs.
AICTE made the submissions thru its respond to 2 PILs filed via way of means of former vice-chancellor of Anna University, E Balaguruswamy, and suggest Ramkumar Aditiyan difficult the authorities order cancelling arrear assessments withinside the kingdom.
“The council has now no longer exempted college students from acting for examinations or allowed them to transport to subsequent yr with out being assessed via way of means of assessments. Degree can't be offered to a scholar who has didn't clean arrears. This isn't always appropriate to the enterprise too,” M Sundresan, AICTE’s south local officer, said. The kingdom’s declare that the GO cancelling arrear assessments and passing all college students who paid examination charge turned into as consistent with the recommendations of the AICTE turned into wrong, the council said.
Only the UGC thru a round authorised selling college students to the subsequent yr with out assessments in view of the pandemic. That too best to keep research thru on line classes, the council added.
On September 8, the kingdom authorities justified its choice to cancel arrear assessments and contended that the choice does now no longer violate UGC norms.
“The authorities has surpassed the order below Disaster Management Act exercise the powers vested with the kingdom catastrophe control authority below the legislation. Even the apex courtroom docket has upheld such rights and powers of the kingdom authority below the Act if it isn't always in warfare UGC recommendations,” suggest-popular Vijay Narayanan said.
The order isn't always in warfare with any UGC norms. As consistent with UGC recommendations best very last assessments can't be cancelled, he added.
Earlier, suggest E Vijay Anand, recommend for Balaguruswamy, contended that best universities have such powers and now no longer the kingdom authorities.
According to Balaguruswamy, the choice will demoralise right and meritorious college students who've toiled difficult to clean assessments.
The authorities order will decrease the schooling popular of college students and the university. It will badly have an effect on the reputation, credibility, and possibilities of meritorious college students and first-rate of schooling, he argued.
