Delhi High Court begins hearing petitions concerning online open book examination for final year DU students in PWD category.
The cases listed before a Division Bench of Justices Hima Kohli and Subramonium Prasad.
Court notes that Delhi University is yet to file its affidavit on data on the mock tests.
We are hearing that there were glitches: Court
Prof Gupta is here: Adv M Rupal
I don't want oral submissions. Where is the affidavit: Court
Then the Court may give us one day : Adv Rupal
How many Common service centre are not functional?: Court
3.1 lakh are operational: ASG Chetan Sharma I
don't want to know this. Tell us how many are not functional. Mr Sibal that last time pointed out your own data : Court
Allegation was 12k were non functional : ASG Sharma
They are less than 10k and in very remote areas: Standing Counsel Ripudaman
Which paragraph is it? Nothing. All oral. We asked you for an affidavit: Court
Which paragraph is it? Nothing. All oral. We asked you for an affidavit: Court
We don't know : Adv Rupal for DU
Give us one day: Adv Rupal
Who is appearing for CSE? Any counsel in any connected matter? : Court
CEO of CSC academy appeared before the Single Judge Bench: Adv Rupal
We will also have to do that. UOI counsel gave the particulars of the CEO: Adv Rupal
Adv Rupal informs that Single Judge has granted time to DU to file its counter in the matter before her.
Court will hear if OBE is to be permitted: Adv Rupal
On June 17, certain directions were issued to make reading material available to blind students and for making scribes available.. Students approached the authorities. They did not comply with the directions: Senior Adv SK Rungta for National Federation of the Blind.
It is an open book exam. They should at least give the books: Senior Adv Rungta
DU says it will respond to the additional affidavit filed by Senior Adv Rungta.
When wil you file ? The exams are around the corner.. they have you an affidavit you should at least be ready with the answer : Court
What is your update on mock tests? : Court
I have info about 200 odd visually impaired students. They did not participate. They did not have the material. There is no scribe. Colleges expressed their inability : Senior Adv Rungta
All these mails are with me. I forwarded it to Dean of Examination but got no response: Senior Adv Rungta
Port Anil Aneja appears before Court. He is the Nodal Officer for PWD students.
Issue was disposed of in the order of the court passed on June 17. If any student wished to buy, students may do so and DU would reimburse. We got no request for reimbursement for any student: Aneja
We were very clear that we can only provide material with us. There is some misconception about open book. It is not necessary that students are going to be asked what is on page xyz.. Material is provided at the request of a student: Aneja
Almost all requests at the last of the beginning of the lockdown was honoured: Aneja
We had an understanding with the NGO. All out reading material was provided to it. Only 26 approached the NGO : Aneja
The NGO has a country wide channel. It has an E-library for visually impaired students. Whoever made a request.. students who are asking for devices, laptops are sending emails, videos: Aneja
We did not receive any reimbursement request for any assistive device. Total Rs 2 lakh was set aside for this purpose: Aneja
No request received from any student for a scribe at CSC : Aneja
Was any scribe available yesterday during mock? : Court
Scribes are required for the second phase of mock. There are 58 requests but it is very difficult to arrange for a scribe at the home of a student. They can come to the college or CSC for a scribe: Prof Gupta
They can download the question paper from CSC, go home and come back to upload it : Prof Gupta
How many students are be accommodated in CSC : Court
In metros, 30 students can download. Few requests from remote areas There is one request from Jammu : Prof Gupta
Senior Adv Kapil Sibal for the Petitioner: Every gran panchayat has one CSC. People may not even know where it is. We don't even know if all gram panchayat have CSC.
Senior Adv Sibal reads an email written by a student raising concerns of incomplete reading material.
In rural areas, CSC has one computer. How many scribes have they recognised? : Senior Adv Sibal
It can't work like this. Requests should be made first: Court
Sibal points out that as per DU's own guideline, the student is allowed to meet the scribe two days before the exam.
In case the person with bench mark disability has to take the exam, they should be allowed to inspect the computer system one day in advance: Sibal
Yes, they can do that.. : Court
We want to know how many students are in rural and urban areas : Court
If college does not provide, then onus was on me to give assistive device. There was a direction to colleges to provide material : Senior adv Rungta
How many students actually raised bills?: Court
They are were asking for reading material : Senior Adv Rungta
College was not saying that they were not giving it to me. When college is undertaking that exercise, why should I duplicate: Senior Adv Rungta
200 odd students are in remote areas. The direction was to the college to give assistive device. Nobody sent me the bill: Senior Adv Rungta
Students were to buy the device and raise the bill : Court
Please read the order with me. A wrong impression is being created : Senior Adv Rungta
199 students made requests for devices and material before the order. I have attached the request made by the students. : Senior Adv Rungta
You (DU) are saying nobody came for reimbursement. He is saying that students have the option to approach the college for the device : Court
No request for devices till June 15: Aneja
We cannot have this orally. You reply to Mr Rungta's affidavit: Court
We have given OCR material: Aneja
As per Section 42 of PWD act, DU has to provide the device: Sibal
Court asks DU to file an affidavit addressing all the issues raised today.
UGC matter is listed before the Supreme Court on Friday: Adv Rupal
We don't want you to be caught unprepared in cases Surpreme court decides to uphold the Guidelines : Court
Court dictates the order, records the submissions made by the parties.
Court seeks the information from CSC Academy on status and number of CSC and how many students would avail its facility in remote areas and urban areas.
Court seeks information on the availablity on scribes for visually impaired students. DU to reply to the issues raised by Senior Adv Rungta in his additional affidavit.
Adv HS Hora for Akshay Lakra says his Petition challenges the legality of the exams on the ground of it being ultra vires the DU Act.
At the time of the pandemic, you are getting into legality? We are looking for practical solutions : Court
We will send you back to the Single Judge. We are not getting into all this : Court
Even during the pandemic, we are covered by the DU act and ordinance: Adv HS Hora
This petition wants quashing of the DU OBE Examination. In the alternative, it wants DU to grade students on past performance. This prayer pertains to the UGC Guidelines which is under challenge before SC : Court dictates the order
It is deemed appropriate to defer hearing in this petition (Akshay Lakra). List in first first week of August: Court
Court adjourns hearing for the day. Main matter to be heard next on July 30.
