ISSUE DATE: May 3, 2021
UPDATED: April 24, 2021 12:20 IST
Students at a primary school in Srinagar line up for a temperature check before entering the building.
On April 14, while India was being buffetted by a second wave of the coronavirus, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) decided to cancel board examinations for class 10 and postpone the examinations for class 12, which were scheduled to be held between May 4 and June 10. The decision was taken at a meeting attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank.
Another pan-India board, the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE), has cancelled the class 10 and postponed the class 12 examinations. The International Baccalaureate (IB) board has gone a step further and also cancelled its class 12 exams and announced that it will take the “non-examination route” in India. Several state boards, too, have either cancelled or postponed their examination or a