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The Union Minister for Education Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ on Tuesday announced the University Grants Commission (UGC) Guidelines on Academic Calendar for the first year of under-graduate and postgraduate students
of the universities for the session 2020-21 in view of Covid pandemic.
The admissions to the first year programmes for the session 2020-21 will be completed by the end of October 2020. The last date for admissions to fill up the remaining vacant seats shall be November 30, 2020.
The Academic Session 2020-21 may commence from November 1, 2020 for first year students.
The academic calendar suggested for the academic session 2020-2021 consists of Admission Process (To be completed - October 31), Fresh batch (First Semester/Year - November 1), Preparatory Break (March 1, 2021 to March 7, 2021), Conduct of Examinations (March 8, 2021 to March 26, 2021), Semester Break (March 27, 2021 to April 4, 2021), Commencement of Classes for Even Semester (April 5, 2021), Preparatory Break (August 1, 2021 to August 8, 2021), Conduct of Examinations (August 9, 2021 to August 21, 2021), Semester Break (August 22, 2021 to August 29, 2021) and Commencement of Next Academic Session for this Batch (August 30, 2021).
If there is a delay in declaration of result of the qualifying examinations, the UGC has said that the universities may plan and start the academic session by November 18, 2020. The teaching learning process may continue in offline/online/blended mode.
In order to avoid financial hardship being faced by parents due to lockdown and related factors, full refund of fees be made on account of all cancellation of admissions/ migration of students, up to November 30, 2020, for this very session as special case.
The entire fees including all charges be refunded in totality (Zero Cancellation charges) on account of cancellation/migration up to November 30, 2020. Therefore, on cancellation/withdrawal of admissions up to December 31, 2020, the entire fee collected from a student be refunded in full after deduction of not more than Rs 1000 as processing fee.
