CBSE Board Examinations Postponed due to Coronavirus Outbreak in India
New Delhi: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 23:13, by: Sangita Roy

HRD ministry communicated to various educational regulators to postpone ongoing examinations in wake of outbreak of coronavirus infection in country. After the HRD ministry direction CBSE announced to cancel the board exemptions of both Class 10 and Class 12 students. New dates of examination will be announced after March.

In wake of current spread of Coronavirus HRD ministry decided to postpone various examinations till 31st March.

Center asked all school, university, engineering and technical colleges to postpone entrance examinations and reschedule only after March 31.

“All ongoing examinations of the board for classes-X and XII, being held in examination centres in India and abroad, and scheduled between 19.03.2020 to 31.3.20 (both dates inclusive), shall be rescheduled after 3141 March, 2020. During the aforementioned period, re-examinations that were rescheduled to be held for North-East Delhi candidates will also be further rescheduled. Rescheduled dates will be communicated by the board to all its stakeholders by 31.03.2020 after re-assessment of the situation,” Anurag Tripathi, CBSE Secretary said in a release.

“All ongoing board exams related evaluation work in various evaluation centres in the country is also suspended upto 310 March, 2020. All Centre Nodal Supervisors may ensure rescheduling of evaluation work from 1.4.20, unless otherwise informed by the Board,” the release added.

Due to Coronavirus over 160 confirmed cases of coronavirus infections have been reported in country while 3 people died to this infection.

According to the reports India is passing the Stage 2 of Coronavirus infection and it is necessary to contain this virus at this stage. Government agencies are taking all the necessary steps to contain deadly coronavirus.

The ministry also directed National Testing Agency to reschedule the upcoming JEE Main examinations. The new dates will be announced on March 31 based on the ''re-assessment of the situation'  at that time.

The JEE Main examination is also rescheduled in April which was earlier scheduled on April 5, 7, 9 and 11.

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