The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar has completed its spring-end semester examinations of 2020-21 for all of its students except for the first-year BTech students despite COVID-19 pandemic, an official said. The first year students examination will take a month and half more due to late admission and late starting of the semester across all the IIT’s across the country. The spring-end semester examinations of 2020-21 have been completed for all students on May 15.
In March 2020, before the lockdown was announced, the institute switched to online education without any gap due to prior planning, innovations, and execution, a senior official said. The institute also developed an innovative online method to hold comprehensive pen and paper exams, trained its faculty, and applied the same very successfully to hold the end-semester examination in May 2020, he said.
“Due to the very tough pandemic, the theory classes for the entire 2020-21 too were conducted online, timely for all the students. For science and engineering students hands-on laboratory training is important and carrying on the same during the pandemic posed a serious problem,” said Raja Kumar, Director, IIT Bhubaneswar.
“Though the situation in Odisha has been better, nearly 90 percent of our students come from all places in the country, up to 2000 migrant workers stayed on the campus, and the challenges have been like anywhere else,” he said.
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