Chancellor must Decide on Bihar B.Ed Entrance Exam in Five Days, Says Supreme Court


The Supreme Court has asked the Chancellor of Universities in Bihar to decide on holding the B.Ed entrance exam in five days’ time. Given the severe condition of the pandemic in Bihar, the Chancellor will have to decide why the B.Ed Joint Entrance Examination should not be postponed this year. In addition, he will have to explain if the examination can be given on any other basis.

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The next hearing of the case will be on 2 September.

The bench consisting of Justices Rohington Fali Nariman and Naveen Sinha said that according to the nodal officer appearing for the state, this year, admission to the B.Ed course can be given both through the entrance examination and the admission of graduation marks. The decision rests with the Chancellor.

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The B.Ed entrance examination in Bihar has been postponed three times due to the coronavirus. The applicants for the examination, as well as teachers and staff in teacher training colleges, are facing problems over the uncertainty of the examination. Private B.Ed Colleges have demanded that students should be allowed admission on the basis of marks. These colleges have moved the Supreme Court.

Lalit Narayan Mithila University, which is holding the B.Ed Entrance Examination, has approached the Supreme Court regarding this matter. The nodal officer of the university said, “We have set a possible date for 22 September. It seems that the situation will improve by then. We had made all preparations for the examination on 29 March but were stopped due to the lockdown.

“After this we planned to have it done on 14 June, 19 July and again on 13 September. Now we will follow the order of the Supreme Court or the directions of the Raj Bhavan.”

Out of the 350 or so teacher training colleges in Bihar, 90 percent are private institutions employing 5,500 teachers and 3,000 non-teaching staff.

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