Panjim:After undergraduate students tested positive for COVID-19, while answering their final year examination; and with the college, affiliated to Goa University (GU) postponing the exam papers, the Nationalist Students Union of India (NSUI) Goa has urged the Varsity to allow the students to answer their papers online.
A student in a city-based College tested positive while answering the final year examination. The College has rescheduled the papers while directing the students to monitor themselves for any COVID-19 related symptoms and get them tested.
NSUI Goa President Ahraz Mulla, informing about the development, said with positive cases being reported, postponement of the papers will no longer be a solution.
“To serve justice to the students, we strongly demand that online exams be held,” he said.
NSUI condemned the action of the State Government and the Goa University to hold offline examination risking student’s life.
NSUI North Goa President Naushad Chowdhari said that on the first day of the final year examination, two students of TYBA and TYBSc were infected by COVID-19; and now all the students are being told to get themselves tested.
“NSUI demands that Goa University stops offline examinations and conducts it in an online mode immediately for the betterment of the students, parents and Goa as a whole,” he said.
The Students Union has sought the Chief Minister Pramod Sawant’s intervention in the matter and for necessary directions.
