Amid rise in Covid cases among students, Assam Univ issues new notice, sticks to offline mode

April 19: Amid rise in Covid-19 cases among the teachers and students, Assam University remained adamant in its decision of conducting the rest of the ongoing TDC (CBCS) Odd Semester Examination in offline mode. On 18 April, a student of 1st semester of GC College tested Covid-19 positive. On 19 April, two more TDC students, one from NC Memorial College (3rd semester), Silchar and the other from Karimganj College (5th semester) were also detected as Covid positive. Earlier, an  Assistant Officer-in-charge (AOC) of the Exam section of Cachar College, tested COVID-19 positive in the midst of ongoing TDC (CBCS) Odd Semester Examination.

In view of increasing COVID-19 across the State of Assam and ongoing examination in affiliated colleges, Dr. Suprabir Dutta Roy, Controller of Examination of Assam university on 19 April issued new guidelines wherein he stated that in case any staff or student involved in the examination process are found to develop symptoms of COVID-19, then they are to abide by these guidelines.

i) In case of development of COVID-19 symptoms, the concerned student / staff is requested to self isolate and immediately test for Covid-19 (RT-PCR Test).
ii) In case of COVID positive cases based on test report, concerned student/ staff should not attend examination / duty until the report turns negative subsequently in course of time. However, the concerned student / staff is expected to report immediately to concerned Principal of Colleges / Officer-in Charge of Examination Centres about the matter.
iii) Cases of students who will not be able to appear examination due to becoming COVID-19 positive and having valid report shall be considered separately, so that there is no loss of academic session due to failure to appear Odd Semester examination. However, cases without valid COVID-19 positive report obtained from Government/ Government authorized medical centre will not be considered.
iv) Once COVID-19 positive report turns out to be COVID-19 negative subsequently, the concerned student shall have to appear remaining examination through offline mode. Concerned Examination Centre shall make arrangement of holding examination of such candidates in separate room.
v) All Examination Centres are to strictly adhere to the SoP issued by the Govt. of Assam from time to time in this regard.