 College students across India protested on July 11, demanding that the final year or terminal semester exams be scrapped in view of the COVID-19 pandemic. The agitation was part of a four-day-long campaign organized by over 30 student groups under the banner of the All India Forum to Save Public Education. On July 6, the University Grants Commission, that is the UGC, which is the body in charge of higher education, revised its guidelines on exams and the academic calendar for universities. The UGC made final year examinations compulsory and extended the examination period till the end of September. This decision was condemned by students and teachers. We have seen across the country people have taken in part and stated loud and clear that the guideline that the University Grants Commission has come up regarding the final year examination is completely unacceptable. The guideline says that to get the final examination certificate you have to appear for exam. You're not going to be evaluated with your previous examination, with your internal examination, but a fresh examination has to happen. Let it be online, let it be offline, not a mixture of both of this. Now the primary contention that we have been raising for so many months now that an online examination, an online mode of studying is not possible right now. We have been spoken elaborately about the digital divide that is going to create. We have been saying that how digital infrastructure is not equally accessible to the people in our country and in a situation like that, in a situation of pandemic, in a situation of distress, we're going to come up with a digital mode of learning and online examination it is going to be suicidal. The another thing that they're talking about that okay no problem if you do not want to give online examination, let us have offline examination. Now how funny is that the time when our country is actually standing on third? In the whole world we are having the third largest population of people who are affected with COVID. Our government thinks that students can go up to their colleges, their schools or their you know examination center and they can give their examination there. How insensitive a government can be about lives of students, about life of young people. So we are saying the methods, the modes that they have you know proposed whatever they're saying let it be offline online or a mixture of both of them is very insensitive, is very inhuman. It is not really taking care of the basic, you know the basic idea whether the students are going to be alive or not. They are not really thinking that student's life is going to be mattered to them. This is our sincere appeal to the government that enough has happened. So many days had passed you have not taken care of our scholarship, you have not taken care of the mediums of the students, you have not taken care of the livelihood of the students but what you are trying to do now is that we are trying to push us to death, it's completely unacceptable. The students across the country are standing against the UGC guideline, we are rejecting the UGC guideline, there is no way, there is no way you can impose these draconians inhuman guidelines on us and the students of India has proved it earlier and they're going to prove it again. The four day protest began on July 11th with students from various colleges of Delhi University gathering in front of the university grants commission office. On the second day students released video messages and held placards in the rejection of the revision. On July 13th, a Twitter storm was conducted by the forum in which more than 50,000 tweets with the hashtag boycott UGC guidelines were tweeted. Today hashtag boycott UGC guidelines is trending at number two position in India, it happened because of you, today as you know the whole country is fighting against the UGC new, this new UGC guideline, believe this is a passage fatwa, they are trying to destroy our thought process, they are trying to destroy our education system and that is why for the last couple of days we're on the streets, we're on the social media everywhere, we send lakhs of letters to MHRD against their policies because it is very clear that this Modi government doesn't care about our lives, the lives of our common student in this pandemic situation, they do not care about our scholarship, about our MA, a PhD, MQC, they don't care about our admission, our midterm meal, they don't care about us, so they only care, but they only care about their DVC politics, they're trying to buy seats in, they're trying to buy MLS in Rajasthan right now in this situation, but today all the students across the countries, they are protesting, they're protesting against this anti-student fatwa of UGC and MHRD because we believe this will promote corporatization and exclusion policy in this education system, now the whole students community that we are fighting and we believe that we will win and again and again today also you prove that the people united should always be victorious. On the final day, notices of UGC, Home Ministry and the Ministry of Human Resource Development and other concerned authorities were burnt by students along with the effigies of Home Minister Amit Shah and Ministry of Human Resources Development Minister Ramesh Pokharyal in various parts of the country, this will be followed by a signature campaign to raise awareness about the issue and these will then be emailed to the Ministry of Human Resource Development