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Holding offline exams dangerous : IKGPTU students write to Amarinder, urge to roll out online option
Holding offline exams could be dangerous amid a pandemic that has been eating into one s lives, students of the I.K. Gujral Punjab Technical University (PTU) said as they raised concerns about their safety.
In a poll conducted by the India Wide Parents Association, 4,505 participants voted. About 94.6 per cent of them favoured online examinations. The parents body, representing students concerns, sent a letter to Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and Education Minister Vijay Inder Singla. The students of the colleges affiliated to I.K. Gujral Punjab Technical University are in a great dilemma because of the unfair decision of the university to conduct offline examinations during the pandemic whereas every other university has given the choice of online mode as well, the letter stated. Everyone is not available to appear in the examinations as