Delhi University Open Book Exams Hearing<\/p>\n
A Bench of Justice Hima Kohli and Justice Subramonium Prasad is hearing the matter now.<\/p>\n
Delhi High Court begins hearing petitions concerning online open book examination for final year DU students in PWD category. Court to examine the data on mock tests, status of CSCs, scribes etc.<\/p>\n
Matter listed before Justice Hima Kohli and Justice Subramonium Prasad.<\/p>\n
Court asks DU: Why was the affidavit filed at quarter to 10? We didn't get the time to read it. The other side is equally handicapped. <\/p>\n
Counsel was constantly following up : Senior Advocate Sachin Dutta<\/p>\n
Court notes that the number of students who logged in for the mock was less than 50% of the ones who registered. <\/p>\n
In phase I, 74,180 students participated out of approximately 1.82k students : Prof Vinay Gupta<\/p>\n
Some students had appeared for the mocks earlier as well : Prof Gupta<\/p>\n
What is the sanctity of the test when the remaining have not appeared for the mock? : Court<\/p>\n
How many years complained of technical problems? There is no info on this? How many were able to upload the answer? : Court<\/p>\n
There were 35 complaints till July 28: Senior Adv Dutta<\/p>\n
This test was only to familiarise students with the platform: Senior Adv Dutta as Court observes that the data on students who uploaded the answer sheet was low.<\/p>\n
As of today, the student may download and upload, for which mocks are being conducted. If student doesn't not wish to do it, he can download the question paper from email: Senior Adv Dutta<\/p>\n
How many email address do you have: Court<\/p>\n
We have address of a student: Prof Gupta<\/p>\n
How many students have said that they want to opt for email?: Court<\/p>\n
They need not opt. Both options are there: Senior Adv Dutta<\/p>\n
Court notes that only around 39k attempted the paper, out of which around 22k uploaded.<\/p>\n
Because in this phase, we had to only give access to students to familiarise them: Senior Adv Dutta<\/p>\n
Out of 647 PWD students, 486 logged in. Out of 182 visually impaired students, only 50% logged in and even lesser uploaded the answer: Court<\/p>\n
Court questions DU on the set up for visually impaired students who do not have access to internet and reside in non metro cities.<\/p>\n
CSC have been asked to arrange for scribe. Any candidate is free to arrange for a scribe: Senior Adv Dutta<\/p>\n
Where has CSC said that they will arrange for a scribe?: Court<\/p>\n
CSC doesn't know how many students will avail their facility. DU doesn't know either : Court<\/p>\n
They need not inform beforehand: Senior Adv Dutta <\/p>\n
It is your responsibility to have the data of how many students would avail CSC : Court <\/p>\n
UGC has mandated us to conduct the exam: Dutta<\/p>\n
We are not going into UGC Guidelines. We are now seeing that students are not left high and dry: Court<\/p>\n
The physical option is there (in second phase). We are hoping that there will be very less students for the second phase: Senior Adv Dutta<\/p>\n
You are very hopeful: Court<\/p>\n
Mode of examination for the physical exam will also be the same : Senior Adv Dutta<\/p>\n
What is the figure on students who wrote the mock exam? : Court<\/p>\n
Actual figure on how many students would sit for physical examination would be clear on August 10. : Prof Gupta<\/p>\n
Senior Adv Kapil Sibal for the Petitioner: Actual number of students who uploaded the mock answer is 22k. Because one student may be uploading several answer sheets. It is less an 8% of the total.<\/p>\n
There is no special arrangement for PWD students at CSC: Senior Adv Sibal<\/p>\n
There is no data either : Court<\/p>\n
Let the CSC representative clarify, he is here: Senior Adv Dutta<\/p>\n
What is left to clarify: Court<\/p>\n
They are playing with the lives of the students.. How do they know it (CSC) is working, is there electricity: Senior Adv Sibal<\/p>\n
It is true that there are no special arrangement for PWD students, scribes : Dinesh Tyagi from CSC<\/p>\n
We have a contract with CSC that they would provide assistance: Senior Adv Dutta<\/p>\n
There is some anxiety in our mind: Court<\/p>\n
Why does your guideline say that the visually impaired student would have the opportunity to meet the scribes two days before: Court<\/p>\n
An overwhelming majority will sit for the OBE, others will sit for physical examination: Senior Adv Dutta<\/p>\n
Why force PWD students to come to CSC then? : Court <\/p>\n
This is optional. They can sit for physical examination: Senior Adv Dutta<\/p>\n
60 visually impaired students asked for a scribe. 58 wanted scribes at home, 2 wanted at CSC. CSC agreed to arrange the scribe: Prof Gupta<\/p>\n
We said we will facilitate, not arrange. We are saying we will help: Dinesh Tyagi<\/p>\n
You are banking on CSC but see what they are saying : Court<\/p>\n
We don't have scribes at the CSC : Tyagi<\/p>\n
There is a complete mismatch in statements: Court<\/p>\n
Who is arranging scribes at home?: Court<\/p>\n
That is not possible. Scribes can be arranged at college or CSC: Senior Adv Dutta<\/p>\n
Have you informed the 58 students?: Court<\/p>\n
Prof Gupta will answer: Dutta<\/p>\n
Prof Aneja, who is the Nodal officer, will answer: Prof Gupta<\/p>\n
Please take instructions Mr Gupta, we are not going to ask the whole world: Court<\/p>\n
Why are you giving hope to the students at go to CSC, everything is ready : Court<\/p>\n
If they take the examination and they are not able to perform, they cannot take the exam later: Court<\/p>\n
PWD students can sit for the exams once again in physical mode : Senior Adv Dutta<\/p>\n
We are here to take a decision for you. We are only here testing the decision: Court <\/p>\n
Your endeavours are not enough to say that the last point as been covered: Court<\/p>\n
At the end of the day, there will be physical exam: Senior Adv Dutta<\/p>\n
Then scrap this, why are you going the mock way and this and that. Let everyone sit for physical : Court<\/p>\n
Issue of scribe is with the Dean (Prof Gupta), I am not part of the process : Prof Anil Aneja<\/p>\n
On June 27, before the exams were postponed, nobody asked for the scribes: Aneja<\/p>\n
These 58 students have come through some examination: Aneja <\/p>\n
Are you discarding them on this ground?: Court<\/p>\n
Out of 400, only 58 are in question and this number does not call for change in policy. They are sit for physical examination: Aneja<\/p>\n
It was my organization that sent the emails from the email address of VI students. We asked for scribes from home because they live in remote areas. The number is large. They are saying 58 but we sent 107 emails: Senior Adv SK Rungta<\/p>\n
We do not know where the CSC is. We said we need scribes where we are, not at home: Rungta<\/p>\n
Total students are 189. We needed writers, reading material, assistive device. We gave a list. But we got no response: Rungta<\/p>\n
We have dealt with the issue on the previous day: Senior Adv Dutta<\/p>\n
These are final year students. They appeared in exams all throughout: Senior Adv Dutta<\/p>\n
Students may have left Delhi in the middle of the pandemic and left everything behind: Court<\/p>\n
Assistive device are with students themselves. Students were given access to collect everything from hostels. At that time there were no restrictions on travelling to Delhi. Even today there are no restrictions: Senior Adv Dutta<\/p>\n
Let these 107 students give their details: Senior Adv Dutta<\/p>\n
We are not going to duplicate it. They have already sent it: Court<\/p>\n
This word file that he talking about was sent on June 16. It had a Google form containing info of all 189 students: Senior Adv Rungta<\/p>\n
Their own July 3 circular talks about reimbursement of costs of procurement of study material etc. The college was supposed to give info. Post this, nothing happened: Rungta<\/p>\n
Info sought from students included info on the location of students so that arrangements could be made : Rungta<\/p>\n
Let info come from the students themselves: Senior Adv Dutta<\/p>\n
Why should be say that? : Court<\/p>\n
When you know the location of students, why are you not dealing with issues of scribes: Court<\/p>\n
Colleges sent info on 229 students out of 400. For remaining, there was no information from students: Aneja<\/p>\n
It will be an achievement if 50% students sit for this exam. Others can always sit for physical: Aneja<\/p>\n
If students are filing the Google form, this means they have the devices: Aneja<\/p>\n
All those who make a request for scribes, we will do our best to arrange one: Aneja<\/p>\n
Once request is received, we will do out best, once they intimate that they have not been able to arrange a scribe, we will take care. I will take instructions: Senior Adv Dutta<\/p>\n
We don't know if we should let you go ahead with OBE for visually impaired students: Court<\/p>\n
It is going well for a large number of students: Senior Adv Dutta<\/p>\n
DU has not acted on its own notifications on visually-impaired students: Prateek Sharma, Petitioner<\/p>\n
We are prepared for students who are in Delhi: Senior Adv Dutta<\/p>\n
Say that you are not prepared for outside Delhi : Court<\/p>\n
No obligation on colleges to arrange so much. We have gone out of our way: Dutta<\/p>\n
These students are not even here: Senior Adv Dutta<\/p>\n
You want us to harrass them more by asking them to come for the hearing? : Court<\/p>\n
How is anybody prejudiced. This exam is in the interest of students: Senior Adv Dutta <\/p>\n
75% visually impaired students would still be able to sit for the online exam: Aneja<\/p>\n
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