Madhya Pradesh Higher Education Department has extended the submission date of application form for its undergraduate and postgraduate students to 31 May without extra fine. The decision was announced by Higher Education Minister Mohan Yadav on their social media website considering the challenges faced by the students during the ongoing pandemic.

Taking to Twitter, the Higher Education Department of Madhya Pradesh announced, “Due to the Corona period, many graduate and postgraduate students have not been able to fill their examination form. As per the order issued by the department, now students can take the examination by filling the examination form till May 31 without any late fee.”

The state’s Higher Education Department had earlier announced on May 4 that the examinations for undergraduate and postgraduate students were scheduled for the months of June and July in an open-book format. Exams for undergraduate final year students and postgraduate fourth semester students were scheduled for June 2021. The announcement of results for the same was decided during the month of July. Undergraduate first and second year and postgraduate second semester final exams were scheduled for July, results of which were scheduled for August.

It had also stated that the practical examinations will be held once the theory was over.

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