Direct promotion to next class: Telangana CM cancels Class X exams
Bringing relief to board exam-bound students in the state, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Monday (June 8) announced that Class 10th students will be promoted to the next class without any examination.
Bringing relief to board exam-bound students in the state, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday (June 8) announced that Class 10th students will be promoted to the next class without any examination.
The news comes on the first day of India’s unlock phase after two months of coronavirus-enforced lockdown forced the state governments to postpone exams.
“It would not be possible to conduct examinations due to the rising numbers of coronavirus infection in the state,” the chief minister said after holding a high-level meeting on Monday.
KCR said that all the 10th class students or Secondary School Certificate (SSC 2020) students would be promoted to the next class by giving grades to them based on their internal assessment marks.
The government also decided to take a call on examinations to be conducted for students enrolled in degree/post-graduate courses based on the situation that prevail in the future.
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Earlier, the board decided to postpone the SSC exams after the Telangana High Court had asked the state govt to not conduct the examination in Hyderabad, Secunderabad and Ranga Reddy districts which were identified as the COVID-19 hotspots.
According to the Telangana Chief Minister’s Office, the state has 5,34,903 students in Class X. Of the six subjects and 11 exams, three were already conducted before the nationwide lockdown was imposed on March 25.
As per the schedule announced on May 22, the Telangana SSC examination was scheduled to be held from Monday, June 8, 2020, to July 5, 2020, which is now cancelled.
The meeting was attended by education minister P Sabitha Indra Reddy and special Chief Secretary to the government, Chitra Ramchandran, chief secretary Somesh Kumar, CMO principal secretary S Narsing Rao, Board of Secondary Education director Satyanarayan Reddy, CMO special secretary Rajsekhar, OSD Desapathy Srinivas, secretary Bhoopal Redyy and others.
