Hey aspirant,

As per the recent guidelines issued by UGC, academic year for 1st year students may commence from November 1. However it will depend on the institute as to when they will start classes and whether it will be online or offline. Based on an earlier announcement by the Deputy CM of Karnataka, Dr CN Ashwath Narayan, offline classes for higher semesters was to begin from October 1, but that is now ruled out because of the ever-increasing COVID-19 cases and the situation is especially worsening in Karnataka.

So, you may expect online classes to begin sometime in November, but this may get delayed further.

All the best.