New Delhi: The Delhi authorities is just not in favour of the CBSE exploring choices to conduct the Class 12 board examinations and going forward with the method with out vaccinating the scholars will show to be an enormous mistake, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia mentioned on Sunday (May 23).
He mentioned this throughout a high-level assembly referred to as by the Ministry of Education to resolve the destiny of the pending Class 12 board exams and the following entrance exams, which had been postponed in view of the second wave of COVID-19.
“Two choices had been mentioned on the assembly. The first was conducting the exams within the current format for the most important topics and marking for the remainder of the topics on the idea of the efficiency in these papers.
“The second was having the exams in the students’ home schools, reducing the duration and changing the exam pattern. The Delhi government is not in favour of these options. We cannot play with the safety of students just to fulfil our stubborn wishes,” the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief informed a press convention.
Sisodia, who can also be the schooling minister of Delhi, mentioned the schooling system has its personal compulsions however contemplating the intense circumstances, they are often put apart.
“Conducting the examination by toying with students’ safety will prove to be a big mistake. The first vaccine, then exams. There are over 1.5 crores, Class-12 students, across the country and 95 per cent of them are above the age of seventeen-and-a-half years. The Centre should talk to experts if they can be given the Covishield or Covaxin vaccines.
“The Centre should also talk to Pfizer to explore vaccination for the Class 12 students. It is a must to vaccinate students, especially with experts indicating that the third wave of the coronavirus will be more dangerous for children,” he added.
The assembly was chaired by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. Union Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani and Minister for Information and Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar additionally attended the assembly, moreover the schooling ministers and secretaries of assorted states and Union territories.
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) had, on April 14, introduced the cancellation of the Class 10 exams and postponed the Class 12 exams in view of a surge within the variety of COVID-19 instances.
(inputs from company)
