Calcutta University students cross rivers to bridge the divide

Many students who lack Internet connectivity at home have rented rooms or temporarily shifted to relatives’ houses to write the final-year undergraduate and postgraduate exams of Calcutta University, which started on Thursday.

The reason was the students had to shift out of their homes. That was the order given by the UGC’s that the answer scripts will have to be uploaded within half an hour of the completion of the day’s exam.

The temporary accommodations are close to the examinees’ respective colleges and they can submit the scripts to the institutions minutes after the end of the test.

Since tests cannot be held in colleges due to the amid the Covid pandemic, the university decided that the colleges would upload the questions on their websites.

Some places like Sagar and Kakdwip in South 24-Parganas, many students had to cross several rivers to bridge the digital divide, a yawning gap staring at the face of educational institutions during the pandemic like never before.

Students of Sundarban Mahavidyalaya (Kakdwip) and Sagar Mahavidyalaya over 105km away from College Street, the headquarters
of CU crossed the Kalnagini, Muri Ganga, and Baratala rivers to write the
paper. They planned to give their exam on every exam day.

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News Source: Telegraph India

Update by Bidisha Roy Choudhury