<span style="color: #222222;">The Governor of Maharashtra Bhagat Singh Koshyari in his capacity as Chancellor of Universities today asked the vice chancellors of non-agricultural universities to complete the entire process of conducting the final year examinations including declaration of results by 31st October 2020.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Governor asked all universities to start the practical examinations from 15th September.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Governor gave these instrctions to the vice chancellors during a video conference meeting from Raj Bhavan this  afternoon, in view of the guidelines issued by the Supreme Court.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Vice Chancellors were asked to consider conducting examinations using the best possible mechanism including MCQ (Multiple Choice Questions) / OMR Optical Mark Recognition method and to think of conducting Offline examinations only in exceptional cases.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The meeting decided that the vice chancellors should hold the meeting of the Board of Examinations and Academic Council within the next 2 or 3 days and prepare their time tables at the earliest.  It was also decided that after the discussion of the Academic Council, the Disaster Management Committee may be approached to clear the matter at the earliest. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Minister of Higher and Technical Education Uday Samant, Minister of State Prajakt Tanpure, Chairman of the Committee of Vice Chancellors on Examination Dr Suhas Pednekar and Additional Chief Secretary, Higher and Technical Education Rajiv Jalota were present at the Raj Bhavan.</span><br />''