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Students, parents and prominent people have urged the government to cancel board exams (Representative)
New Delhi:
Amid a worrying spike in coronavirus cases across the country, the demand for cancellation of offline examinations for Class 10 and 12 board examinations has been growing rapidly.
A parents association has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting CBSE, state boards and others to evaluate students via internal assessment instead of physical examinations.
The India Wide Parents Association also added in their letter that as teachers and students have not been vaccinated yet, there is a higher chance of infection. The letter also claimed that medical infrastructure across the country is collapsing.
Pressure on fee panel to take a decision on hike
Pressure on fee panel to take a decision on hike
BySalonee MistrySalonee Mistry / Updated: Apr 6, 2021, 06:00 IST
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parents and schools feel the regulatory committee is ignoring them
Payment and non-payment of fees at various education institutes has been a pulsating issue for a while now. On one hand, schools are requesting, hoping and some even demanding that parents pay the fees in full for 2019-20 and 2020-21. Parents on the other hand believe that since pandemic has hit everyone badly, they should not be forced to pay fees in full.
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Will AKTU hold online exams? Here s what the university has to say
Several students across the country have been putting forth their demand for the conduct of examinations in online mode ever since the coronavirus pandemic struck the country. They say that offline or physical examinations could pose a risk to their health. Many students of Lucknow s Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University took to social media to protest the forthcoming offline examinations and urged the university to hold exams online.Â
However, the university has decided to go ahead with offline examinations. In a conversation with
India TV Digital, AKTU vice-chancellor Prof Vinay Kumar Pathak said that it was not feasible to conduct the exams online as 90 per cent of the varsity students resided in villages.