Mumbai: MP seeks one policy for board exams

MUMBAI: Voicing concern of lakhs of

students

set to appear for board exams this year, city MP Arvind Sawant wrote to Centre demanding a uniform policy for all states. State board’s HSC and SSC exams will begin on April 23 and 29 respectively.

CBSE and CISCE is expected to start class X and XII board exams in the first week of May. There have been growing demands from students and parents demanding board exams be cancelled or postponed. Sawant wrote to Union education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal, “Exams are due in few days, we will have millions of students, their families, teachers/invigilators and non-teaching staff at high risk considering the pandemic. Many students and teachers will come from micro-containment zones which makes logistics difficult… Besides state boards, two are national and two international. Your

intervention

and guidance is needed.”