Students can appear for CBSE board exams from city they are in: HRD Minister

To enable this, students will have to give the details of their current status. By the first week of June, students will be informed about their exam centre, he had added. The minister also congratulated students and wished them luck for their board exams.

“It was earlier decided that students will not have to go to any other place for the pending class 10 and class 12 exams and rather appear from the schools they are enrolled in, however, since students have left their schools or hostels and are now at their homes, we have made a change. Now, students will be able to appear for the exam from the place they are in,” the Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Ramesh Pokrhiyal Nishank informed through a video.

To enable this, students will have to give the details of their current status. By the first week of June, students will be informed about their exam centre, he had added. The minister also congratulated students and wished them luck for their board exams. The pending CBSE board exams will be held from July.

Talking on national television last week, the minister had said that students will be allowed to appear from the schools they are enrolled in order to save the students and their parents the commute. However, the Ministry of Home Affairs in another circular had said that no exam centres will be allowed to set-up in the contaminated zone.

The exams will be held amid social distancing norms. The board has increased the number of exam centres from 3000 to 15,000 to enable students to stand at a distance. Further thermal check-ups will be mandatory for students before entering the exam hall. Also, masks and sanitisers will be allowed in the exam halls.

The evaluation process for the exams which have been conducted is on. The HRD Minister had earlier said that the board is trying to release the result “soon and efforts are being made to declare the result by July-end itself.” The evaluation process is being carried out from home by teachers. To ensure the fast results, HRD had announced that teachers who are involved in the evaluation process will be exempted from delivering academic and administrative work for the tenure.