NEW DELHI: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Saturday held connections with college attorneys, teachers and pupils to willful options which could be researched by the central authorities to reach a decision concerning pending Course 12 board examinations.

Both virtual interactions with Sisodia arrived a day ahead of the Ministry of Education’s essential meeting on Sunday to determine fate of board examinations that were postponed in light of the second tide of Covid-19.

“The consensus which emerged from all of the meetings with the important stakeholders was the lack of experiments for children, running any sort of examinations will merely make our pupils and teachers prone to this virus.

Together with the surge of Covid-19 instances, principals and teachers said that the most suitable choice about Class 12 board examinations will be to fully cancel them” a senior administration official said.

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“The college principals have been of the view that obsession with evaluation won’t serve any function and will just create more difficulties for pupils.

Also nearly all households have endured some sort of Covid-related injury and accepting any sort of examinations at this point would only add to the already difficult situation.

“Thus, relaying the opinion of several pupils and parents throughout the country, all of the stakeholders of the belief that security and safety in this period of emergency is of extreme significance,” the official added.

Sisodia, who’s additionally Delhi’s Education Minister, took the comments of their pupils and teachers concerning potential choices during the connections.

Option assessment alternatives, such as taking into consideration marks of Class 10 and also pre-board examinations and internal tests, were one of the suggestions received through the interactions.

The Ministry of Education has invited proposals from several stakeholders which are going to be consumed in the meeting scheduled to be chaired by Union Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday.

Union ministers Smriti Irani and Prakash Javadekar apart from Education ministers and secretaries from all states and union territories will also be expected to attend to the assembly.

The Central Board of Secondary Education had on April 14 declared the evaluation of Class 10 examinations and postponement of all Class 12 examinations in light of the spike in Covid-19 instances.

The decision was taken at a high level meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The tests, which are normally conducted in February-March each calendar year, were scheduled to be held by May 4.

The CBSE had declared a decision in the Class 12 board tests are going to be taken on or after June 1.