The Covid 19 second wave has forced universities and educational institutions to postpone their semester examinations and online tests. The universities which have postponed examinations include Ranchi University, Dr Shyma Prasad Mukherjee University, Birsa Agricultural University among others. Birsa Agriculture University, the State’s premier agriculture varsity, a week back announced postponement of the counselling process for admission into post graduate and Ph.d programmes till further notice owing to the shutdown of its administrative unit after some staff of varsity tested corona positive.
Though the universities have postponed examinations, Ranchi University (RU) will seek a fresh proposal from the director of Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (Rims) for holding the final-year MBBS and the MD/MS exams offline. Following the director’s proposal, the Controller of Examination would seek permission from the higher education secretary for conducting the exams.
Ranchi University PRO, PK Jha said, “The University is contemplating plans for conducting MBBS examination. However, the process requires the consent of University senior officials, RIMS director and State higher education senior officials.” Sources said that the RU for conducting the examinations will seek the government guidelines in conducting it. After passing the exam, students can join the medical workforce as interns as we need more and more workforce under the current Covid situation. State’s premier health hub, the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (Rims) comes under Ranchi University.
Though the RU administration is working on plans on conducting MBBS examination on offline mode, the RU administration due to surge in Covid cases have decided to promote students from other faculties.
The LLM students of intermediate semesters will be promoted to the next semester as per the UGC guidelines. The offline examination of the remaining papers of LLM and LLB will be held as and when the situation becomes normal.
The University administration has directed respective college principals to start the form filling process of semester-II of the 2019-22 session and semester-IV of the 2018-21 sessions from May 3.
The varsity at the same time has directed colleges to submit the marks of mid-semester, ability enhancement course, generic elective subjects, and practical of the aforementioned semester at the examination department so that the final results will be prepared based on marks submitted by colleges.
Meanwhile, the RU staff will work from home and they may be called to the office only if needed.
With the surge in Covid cases from the first week of April, the Ranchi University had taken slew of measures such as closing university offices, departments, allied offices and all colleges. Offline examinations have been postponed till further orders among others.