Letters to the Editor April 20, 2021
April 20, 2021 00:02 IST
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April 20, 2021 00:02 IST
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Pandemic management
The alarming rise in COVID-19 cases, made worse by the shortage of essentials including medical oxygen cylinders, hospital beds and vaccines, tells the grim tale of how unprepared the Centre and several States have been in tackling the ongoing second wave. The authorities either choose to ignore it or be callous about it. Health protocols have been observed in breach during the campaigning for the Assembly elections with the Election Commission having mostly remained a mute spectator. Restrictions that were clamped during the first wave have returned, threatening to derail India’s nascent economic recovery. As the country cannot afford another stringent lockdown, whose horrid memories are still fresh in the minds of people, impositions of local restrictions even while hastening the vaccination drive and widening its ambit should inform
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Pragmatic decision
Amid the upsurge in Covid-19 cases, the CBSE took a pragmatic decision to postpone the class 12 exams while cancelling the class X exam. The pandemic has not not only upended the human lives and their livelihoods, but also unleashed a massive and an unprecedented disruption in education across the globe. While education went online as coronovirus swept across the globe, it had not only laid bare the glaring inequalities afflicting education for decades, but also widened it as students from the poorer sections lack of access to mobiles/computers and internet connection. If CBSE cancels the class XII exam and considers using internal assessment done through the year to grade the class 12 students in the event of cancelling the board exam, it would be doing grave injustice to a significant chunk of students from poor socio-economic background due to their lack of digital access. Steps to bridge the digital ga
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