Don’t declare II PU results till decision on promoting repeater college students: HC

The High Court of Karnataka on Thursday directed the State authorities to not declare results of brisker or common college students of second 12 months pre-university (II PU) programs till a decision is taken based mostly on the findings of the professional committee set as much as examine methodology to be utilized for promoting repeater college students.

A division bench comprising Justice B.V. Nagarathna and Justice Hanchate Sanjeevkumar handed the interim order on a PIL petition filed by S.V. Singre Gowda, managing trustee of Gnana Mandira Education Trust, Bengaluru.

The petitioner had questioned the decision of the Karnataka authorities to advertise solely recent/common college students with out holding exams, and conduct exams for repeaters and personal candidates when COVD-19 pandemic state of affairs eases.

The bench handed the order after being knowledgeable that the federal government has arrange a 12-member professional committee to counsel methodology to be utilized for promoting repeaters of II PU if the exams weren’t be carried out for them on the traces of freshers/common college students of II PU within the tutorial 12 months 2020-21.

As the petitioner submitted the plea on behalf of personal candidates, as a lot of them might not have appeared for the primary 12 months PU exams, the bench directed the federal government to instruct the professional committee to look at the methodology to be utilized to advertise all different classes of repeater college students with out holding exams for the II PU programs.