new delhi the delhi high court on wednesday issued a notice to the central government university grants commission ugc and delhi university on a petition against the decision to mandate conducting final term exams in colleges by september enda bench of justice jayant nath after hearing the submissions of the petitioner issued notice to the centre through union hrd ministry ugc and delhi university and slated the matter for further hearing on august 4solicitar general tushar mehta appeared for the ugc before the court todaythe petition filed by final year delhi university student kabir sachdeva through advocates dhruv pande and randeep sachdeva sought directions to promote the final year students on the basis of marks obtained in previous years and internal assessment in the present yearthe ugc had on july 6 issued revised exam guidelines mandating to hold final examinations in colleges and universities by the end of september stating that the academic credibility career opportunities and future progress of students were linked to examsadvocate manik dogra representing the petitioner argued that the guidelines demonstrate non application of mind and colourable exercise of power and set an illegitimate expectation for the public to follow putting a large sect of the population at a significant threat amid pandemicthe petitioner student challenging the vires of the memorandum passed by the ministry of human resources and development department of higher education which provide instructions for conducting the exams along with standard operating procedures for the samethe plea said that in times of a global pandemic the concern ministry and ugc have placed irrational weightage on academic evaluation and completely neglected the importance of lives of thousands of studentsthe ugc has also acted in contravention and beyond powers conferred upon them under the university grants commission act 1956 the plea said adding that the union hrd ministry and ugc are acting in gross violation of the fundamental rights of the students