Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal on Tuesday shared the tentative UGC calendar for the first year university students of under-graduate (UG) and post-graduate (PG) courses for the session 2020-21

University Grants Commission has released the academic calendar for the session 2020-21 for first-year university students of under-graduate and post-graduate courses. The UGC session calendar was shared by the Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal on Twitter. In view of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Commission has accepted the Report of the Committee and approved the UGC Guidelines on Academic Calendar for the First Year of Under-Graduate and Post-Graduate Students of the Universities for the Session 2020-21.

According to the latest calendar, the academic session for freshers will now begin in November instead of September, and the delay will spill over to the next academic session as well.

This is a revised version of the alternative calendar in which the commencement of classes for the 1st year has been pushed by at least 2 months. Due to the delay in various entrance exams, the commencement date has been pushed to November 1 now. Universities can push the start date until November 18 if there is a delay in the results of the entrance exams.

In April, the UGC had released an alternative academic calendar for colleges, with the plan to reopen colleges in September. But following the surge in COVID-19 cases, which delayed the entrance examinations, the UGC pushed the session by 2 more months.