New Delhi (ILNS): In a recent move the Bar Council of India (BCI) has allowed law colleges to physically conduct examinations after receiving a No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the respective State governments and State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) in view of the pandemic. It was also decided to make it optional for the students.
The order also revealed that the respondent No.1 (Controller of Examinations, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University) has clarified that the students pursuing law degrees who had approached the court by filing of the present petition would be free, not to take the physical exam, which are being held from today.
The Council observed:
“If physical exams as contemplated by the University is held with effect from 02.11.2020 and if the said exams are held without any penal consequences to any Student who is unable to appear in the said exam, no student shall be prejudiced or affected and they will get an opportunity to appear in the Exam again after physical reopening of the college/university as contemplated in the Circular/Press Release of the Bar Council of India dated 27.05.2020 and 09.06.2020 respectively, which was further clarified by the BCI Resolution dated 05.10.2020.”
BCI has further stated that examination for all intermediary and final year law students may be held online.
“All students affected by pandemic who are promoted to the next year/semester, without their promotion getting affected, and who are unable to appear in or having appeared is/are unable to clear any presently held (during pandemic) offline/online exam and/or the physical exam to be preferably held within one month of physical re-opening of Universities/Colleges, shall also be provided with opportunity to clear such papers, before the grant of law degree, immediately, after the final year examination, without any penalization or prejudice being caused to them,” said the order.
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The decision came in view of the Supreme Court order giving a right to respective SDMA to make requests for postponing the physical exam.