DU students organized a protest at the Arts Faculty, North Campus to draw the attention of DU officials to their need for an online test for all DU seminars.
Following a previous protest on March 7, 2022, University of Delhi (DU) students staged another protest on March 11, 2022, demanding online tests for all students, including those studying for a semester outside the first semester. The protest was held at the Arts Faculty, North Campus, DU and students were seen in large numbers to support the OBE need for the ongoing semesters.
The offline protests were accompanied by online protests involving sharing posters in the news and using the hashtags ‘#Hybridmodeshouldbeachoice’ and ‘#OnlineExamForAllSemestersOfDU’. This also led to the signing and completion of an online application form which was to be submitted to the DU Vice-Chancellor on 11 March itself.
Protesting students believe that OBE test mode is the only way to test tests in a situation like this where about 70-80% of the syllabus has been integrated into online classes.
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});For 2 years we have been offering online exams and online assignments and now suddenly colleges are open and (offline) internally have started… It will take time to adapt to the university environment; nor did we get it for so long. Most of our syllabus has been completed online. Only the latest 30% of offline tutorial (mode) and expect us to offer offline tests obviously that is a problem for us.
Says Anubhav, a third-year UG student at Ramjas
Many students have also expressed concern that although all colleges are open, hostels are not yet open. This means that in addition to all the other problems and problems that students face, they have to find accommodation in a very short time. This comes with the sharp rise in PG prices and rent, something that will not be overlooked when it comes to students from different economic backgrounds.
“I saw the student’s mother crying yesterday and asking me to find my daughter a hostel, a room. They have not yet figured out where the students will stay. What they said was come and write the offline exams. ”
conducts Anubhav
Most of the graduates also highlighted the problem of dropping out of the jobs they were studying or the tests they were preparing.
Following the protests from Friday, a group of student protesters were summoned to appear before the examining authority, namely, the Examination Officer, to discuss the matter and to address the students’ concerns. This was done without the presence of the Vice-Shancellor because he was not present at the time.
“First they said most students want to write exams offline. In that case, we showed them the 7,000 completed forms (complaint forms) and then they said they would intervene and come back to us, ”said Divyanshu Singh Yadav, who spoke loudly and appeared at the protests. has been urging readers to support the cause by using videos on the Instagram page dedicated to the cause, ‘DU Online Mode 2022’.
So far, no clear decision has been made regarding the student protests. In the wake of the massive reopening protests in early February, the protests highlighting the problems of reopening and offline classes have brought further confusion and duality as a DU student.
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