Chandigarh: The Haryana authorities has determined to cancel the Class 12 exams carried out by the state board, Education Minister Kanwar Pal mentioned on Tuesday (June 1). The choice got here shortly after the central authorities introduced cancelling the CBSE Class 12 board exams amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
(*12*) Pal informed PTI over telephone. “We are going with the decision taken by the Centre and have decided to cancel the board exams,” he mentioned. The state Board will take steps to compile the outcomes of Class 12 college students and modalities for this will probably be labored out quickly, he added.
The choice to cancel the CBSE exams was taken at a high-level assembly chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “Government of India has decided to cancel the Class XII CBSE Board Exams. After extensive consultations, we have taken a decision that is student-friendly, one that safeguards the health as well as future of our youth,” the prime minister tweeted after the assembly.
Anxiety amongst college students, dad and mom and academics have to be put to an finish, and college students shouldn’t be compelled to look for exams in such a aggravating state of affairs, a authorities assertion quoted the prime minister as saying.
Earlier on April 15, the Haryana authorities had cancelled the Class 10 board exams which had been to be carried out by the state board. It had then determined to postpone the exams of Class 12.
The state board exams had been earlier scheduled to start out in April and proceed until mid-May earlier than these had been cancelled for Class 10 and postponed for Class 12.
Haryana noticed a pointy improve in coronavirus circumstances over the previous few weeks. However, infections have been on the decline in the previous few days.
To comprise the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Haryana, the state authorities had initially imposed a lockdown on May 3 for per week until May 10, which was later prolonged 4 instances and is at the moment enforced until June 7.
