मुख्यमंत्री ठाकरेंचा निर्णय राज्यपाल कोश्यारींनी केला रद्दबातल विद्यापीठ कायद्यानुसार अंतिम वर्षाच्या परिक्षा घेण्याचे आदेश

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दोनच दिवसांपूर्वी राज्यातील विद्यापीठस्तरावरील अंतिम वर्षातील विद्यार्थ्यांच्या परिक्षा रद्दबातल करण्याचा निर्णय मुख्यमंत्री उध्दव ठाकरे यांनी जाहीर केला. मात्र या निर्णयावरून राज्यपाल भगतसिंग कोश्यारी यांनी तीव्र नाराजी व्यक्त करत विद्यार्थ्यांच्या भविष्याच्यादृष्टीने मुख्यमंत्र्यांचा हा निर्णय रद्दबातल करत विद्यापीठ कायद्यानुसार विद्यार्थ्यांच्या परिक्षा घेण्यात येणार असल्याचे जाहीर केले.
त्यामुळे परिक्षेच्या कारणावरून पुन्हा एकदा राज्यात मुख्यमंत्री विरूध्द राज्यपाल असा संघर्ष राज्यातील जनतेला पाह्यला मिळणार आहे.
यासंदर्भात आज २ जून २०२० रोजी राज्यपाल कोश्यारी यांनी मुख्यमंत्री ठाकरे यांना पत्र लिहीत, साधारत: दोन दिवसांपूर्वी विद्यापीठस्तरावरील अंतिम वर्षाच्या विद्यार्थ्यांच्या परिक्षा न घेता त्यांना अॅग्रीकेट पध्दतीने मार्क देवून त्यांना पास करण्यात येणार असल्याचे मुख्यमंत्री उध्दव ठाकरे यांनी जाहीर केल्याचे प्रसारमाध्यमातून कळाल्याची बाब राज्यपालांनी निदर्शनास आणून देत हा निर्णय अनपेक्षित आणि आश्चर्यकारक असल्याचे या पत्रान्वये सांगितले. तसेच या निर्णयाची अंमलबजावणी झाल्याचे परिणाम विद्यार्थ्यांच्या भविष्यावर होतील अशी भीतीही त्यांनी यावेळी व्यक्त केली. तसेच या पाठविलेल्या पत्राला उत्तर द्यावे अशी सूचनाही राज्यपालांनी मुख्यमंत्र्यांना केली.
तसेच या निर्णयाच्या अनुषंगाने राज्यपालांनी परिक्षेच्या संदर्भात अहवाल तयार करण्याची जबाबदारी सोपविण्यात आलेल्या विद्यापीठांच्या कुलगुरूंच्या समितीलाही पत्र लिहून याचा जाब विचारला आहे.
याशिवाय आर्किटेक्ट, मेडिकल, वकील आदी कोर्सेसच्या विद्यांर्थ्यांना पुढील व्यावसायिक कामकाज करण्याकरीता परिक्षेत पास झाल्यानंतर एकप्रकारे परवाना दिला जातो. त्यांना जर विना परिक्षेचा परवाना दिला तर त्याचे दूरगामी परिणाम होतील तसेच त्यांचे व्यावसायिक जीवनही अडचणीत येईल अशी भीतीही त्यांनी व्यक्त केली.

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“Decision on holding final year exams will be taken as per Universities Act”: Governor to CM
Asserting that the Chancellor of Universities has the final authority over all University matters as per the provisions of Maharashtra Public Universities Act, Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari today conveyed to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray that decision regarding holding of the examinations of final year students ‘shall be taken in consonance with the provisions of the Act’.
Describing the announcement of the cancellation of examinations by the Chief Minister as ‘unprecedented’ and made ‘without any profound thinking on the legal repercussions’, the Governor remarked that the decision, if implemented, would jeopardize the future of students.
In a letter to the Chief Minister sent on 2nd June, the Governor said that he was ‘surprised’ to learn through media reports that the former had declared that ‘no examinations shall be conducted this year’, while he was still awaiting a response to his letter to the Chief Minister.
The Governor wrote that even though the Committee of Vice Chancellors constituted by the Minister for Higher and Technical Education to analyse the situation and to explore various options available to conduct the examinations had given its report to the Secretary, Higher and Technical Education Department on 6th May 2020, the same had not been presented to him till date.
The Governor pointed out that during his video conference with Vice Chancellors, all the vice chancellors of state universities had communicated their preparareness for conducting their respective examinations.
The Governor stated that he had clearly mentioned that the Chancelllor’s office shall give further directions after accepting the recommendations of the Committee partially or fully once the report was received by him.
“The arbitrary decision has violated the basic principle that to obtain an identical degree, there cannot be two sets of criteria, one who has given examination and for the other who has obtained marks on average. The examinations cannot be made optional”, wrote the Governor.
Pointing out that the students of Medicine, Architecture, Law, etc needed to register themselves with their respective professional bodies / councils after completion of professional course so as to get their licence to practice, the Governor stated that these bodies may not be able to register the students without them being evaluated on established parameters.
The Governor noted that the Ministry of Home Affairs had given approval and issued guidelines to conduct examinations to various state boards and that CBSE and ICSE are in the process of conducting their examinations in spite of the COVID situation. He said that if other Boards can conduct examinations for younger children, then the Universities can conduct their examinations as well.
In his letter, the Governor has mentioned that the UGC and other central authorities are of the view that the final year examination may not be dispensed with and that therefore the State Government should abide by UGC guidelines alongwith the provisions of the Maharashtra Universities Act, 2017.