The university and college teachers are up in arms against the decision of HNB Garhwal University to hold semester examination during the winter vacation. The Garhwal University and college Teachers Association (GRUTA) has threatened that the teachers would not do invigilation duties from January 1 to January 14. The HNB Garhwal University is holding its semester examination from December 19 to January 16.
The association has also dashed off a letter to the Vice Chancellor (VC) of the university on the issue. The general secretary of GRUTA, Dr DK Tyagi said that the university owing to mismanagement declared the examination of I and III semester during the winter break which is most unfortunate. He said that the according to the calendar of the university the winter vacations are slated between December 31 to January 14. Tyagi said the last date of online form submission of the university was September 30 which was arbitrarily extended many times and the university continued this process till December 1 due to which the semester examinations were postponed to December 19 from the earlier scheduled December 12. He said that the university implemented the semester and CBCS system but no provision for faculty members for Modern Indian literature (MIl) and MIl communication which were added in the syllabus. The GRUTA has told the University that it would follow the academic calendar and all its 400 members would observe winter vacation from January 1.