The Delhi high court has asked the ministry of home affairs (MHA) to consider the representation of a parents’ body, which allow to sought directions for final-year students of various universities to stay at hostels or paying guest accommodations, during the exams.
Justice Jayant Nath said that the authorities to decide the writ petition as a representation and deal with the same as per law, while disposing of a petition filed by Juvvadi Sagar Rao, founder of Telangana Parents Foundation.
The plea also sought directions to the home ministry, department of higher education and the department of health and family welfare to take necessary measures for conducting the final-year exams and entrance exams for without causing trouble to students.
The petition, filed through advocates Sravan Kumar and R Balaji, said due to the Covid-19 restrictions, government, private hostels and paying guest accommodations are closed except a few government-university run hostels. Due to the pandemic, it has been causing difficulty to the final year students of various universities