Telangana high court lifts stay, SSC exam from June 8

HYDERABAD: Underlining the need to readjust to live with novel coronavirus, the Telangana high court on Tuesday gave the green signal to the state to begin SSC examinations from June 8 after reviewing Covid-19 situation on June 3.
"We don't like this Damocles' sword of exams hanging over the heads of students for long, causing anxiety in tender minds," a bench of Chief Justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan and Justice B Vijaysen Reddy said while hearing a PIL filed by Mandapati Balakrishna seeking an extension of stay on Class 10 exams due to the lockdown.
Expressing its satisfaction over the extensive precautions taken by the state for the safe conduct of examinations after Advocate General BS Prasad explained to the court how they planned to sanitise the premises before and after each paper, the Chief Justice said: "Give two days' gap between each exam. Let children write the exams in a more relaxed manner."
"You are free to postpone the exams again if the situation so warrants. But with prior intimation to students and parents," the bench said while vacating the stay it imposed on the exams earlier.