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CBSE Board Exams News updates LIVE: After a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Department of Education decided to postpone the 12th class exams and cancel the 10th board exams. For CBSE class 12 boards, this status will be reviewed on June 1 and revised dates will be announced thereafter.
For CBSE class 10 students, the results will be adjusted on the basis of the "objective method" to be developed by the Board. Anyone who is dissatisfied with the marks allocated to them for this reason will be given the opportunity to write the exams even when circumstances allow. Last year also the CBSE organized a new program for 10th graders.
Earlier this week, the Department of Education and the CBSE held a meeting amid growing demand for cancellation of board exams. The meeting held today will not only focus on the CBSE but may also bring the same policy or guidelines to the provincial board exams, as required by a few government ministers.
Tests were originally scheduled for May and June.
Several ministers had written to Prime Minister Modi demanding the postponement of Class 10 and 12 board exams following the rise in Covid-19 cases. The another request for cancelling the exams comes from Punjab Prime Minister Captain Amarinder Singh.
In a letter to Pokhriyal, Singh pointed to the current situation of Covid-19 and stressed that "it would be better to make a quick decision to postpone the 10th and 12th Board exams".
The Chief Minister of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal, also wrote to Prime Minister Modi, urging that the board's exams be postponed.
Trapped by a second wave of the coronavirus, which is becoming more and more infectious, India on Wednesday recorded the highest daily escalation of 184,372 new cases of Covid-19, taking the total number of infections in the country to exceed 13.87 million, according to the latest figures. the union health and welfare department.
The daily number from the virus has reached 1,027. This is the first time in more than five months that the dead have exceeded the 1000 mark.
The worst figures come on the last day of the ‘Tika Utsav’ (immunization celebrations) when Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for mass participation in the nationwide vaccination campaign.
The day before, the center confirmed that the second wave of viral infection had passed through a very high rate and that the high incidence of disease is a cause for concern. Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said the trend in India's Covid-19 cases in the second wave was "worrying".
"We have 89.51% of the people who have been cured, 1.25% who have died and 9.24% active cases. If we look at new cases, we will find that the previous increase has passed and the practice has gone up.
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