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 Post-Graduate Students of the Universities for the Session 2020-21 in View of COVID-19 Pandemic.
The Commission at its meeting held on September 21 approved the UGC Guidelines.
The admissions to the first-year programs 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 30 November 2020.
The Academic Session 2020-21 may commence from November 1 for first-year students.
Accordingly, the following calendar has been suggested for the academic session 2020-2021:
- Admission Process (To be completed) 31.10.2020
- Commencement of Classes of above students
- Fresh batch (First Semester/Year) 01.11.2020*
- Preparatory Break 01.03.2021 to 07.03.2021
- Conduct of Examinations 08.03.2021 to 26.03.2021
- Semester Break 27.03.2021 to 04.04.2021
- Commencement of Classes for Even Semester 5.04.2021
- Preparatory Break 01.08.2021 to 08.08.2021
- Conduct of Examinations 09.08.2021 to 21.08.2021
- Semester Break 22.08.2021 to 29.08.2021
- Commencement of Next Academic Session for this Batch 30.08.2021
If there is a delay in the declaration of the result of the qualifying examinations, the UGC has said that the universities may plan and start the academic session by November 18. The teaching-learning process may continue in offline/online/blended mode.
In order to avoid financial hardship being faced by the parents due to lockdown and related factors, a full refund of fees will be made on account of all cancellation of admissions/ migration of students, up to November 30. The entire fees including all charges will be refunded in totality (Zero Cancellation charges) on account of cancellation/migration up to November 30. Therefore, on cancellation/withdrawal of admissions up to December 30 the entire fee collected from a student be refunded in full after deduction of not more than Rs. 1000/- as processing fee.