New Delhi: In view of the present COVID-19 situation in India, the Ministry of Education on Monday (May 3, 2021) asked all of the centrally-funded institutions to postpone offline exams scheduled in May.
Such institutions embody all IITs, NITs, IIITs and central universities.
Secretary, Higher Education Amit Khare, in a letter addressed to all of the heads of centrally funded institutions, stated that the web examinations, and so on might proceed.
The letter additionally acknowledged that the determination can be reviewed in the primary week of June.
The institutions had been additional suggested to be certain that if anybody in the establishment wants any help, it needs to be offered quick doable assist in order that he/she comes out of the misery on the earliest.
Earlier on Monday, the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Post Graduate) was additionally postponed for at the very least 4 months. The determination to postpone the NEET-PG examination was taken after Prime Minister Narendra Modi reviewed the rising want for enough human assets for responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in the nation.Â
The NEET-PG college students can be given at the very least one month of time after the announcement of the examination earlier than it’s performed. “This will make a large number of qualified doctors available for COVID-19 duties,” the Centre acknowledged.Â
Notably, India is witnessing an unprecedented spike in COVID-19 instances from the previous couple of weeks. The world’s second-worst coronavirus-hit nation recorded greater than 3,00,000 new infections for a twelfth straight day on Monday. India has to date registered 1,99,25,604 instances and a pair of,18,959 fatalities. The whole variety of energetic instances in the nation now stands at 34.13 lakh.Â
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