bengaluru the karnataka high court on thursday directed visvesvaraya technological university vtu to consider whether it is feasible to provide an online examination as an option to the final year engineering students in addition to proposed offline examinationthe court noted that there is still a lot of time as the examination is scheduled to begin on september 15 and vtu can seek opinion assistance from experts regarding technical requirements for conducting online examinationthe court also observed that the issue on hand is final year examination which will have a great impact on a students future the vtu needs to consider their grievances with all seriousnessthe hearing has been adjourned to september 25 and the court has directed the vtu to place its decisionearlier the state government informed the court that standard operating procedures sop which was followed during the conduct of the karnataka common entrance test on july 30 and july 31 would be made applicable for these examsrecording the statement the court directed both the state government and vtu to put out the contact details of the designated officers who can be approached for redressal of their grievances by the studentsthe petition is filed by final year students of bangalore institute of technologyciting covid pandemic the students had approached the court challenging the university grants commission ugc directive to complete the examination process by end of september interestingly the supreme court is also hearing a batch of petitions on the same issue