HS 1st year exam cancelled; ABVP demands to return back exam fees collected from students

Nov. 9: Assam Higher Secondary Education Council (AHSEC) was supposed to conduct the HS First Year Final Exam, 2020 in the month of April. However, due to the pandemic situation followed by nationwide lockdown, the said examination was cancelled and all students were automatically promoted to HS 2nd Year. However, the students had already paid the examination fees of Rs.1000 to their respective colleges much ahead of the outbreak of the pandemic.

It is in this connection that the GC College Unit of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) raised a demand to return back the Exam Fees of HS 1st year Final exam collected by the college. In this connection, the ABVP Unit members of GC College, Silchar submitted a memorandum to the Principal on Monday.

In the memorandum, ABVP wrote, “As the examination was cancelled, so we demand that the surplus amount after deducting the payment made to the AHSEC, if any, be refunded to the students. Agitation in-charge of ABVP Silchar Unit, Rohit Chanda said, “While submitting the memorandum to the Principal of GC College, we demanded that the fees be refunded to the students within a week or else we will launch a vigorous agitation.”