Guwahati: Even As Head of Himanta’s head Buswa Sarma urged all council exam participants to get vaccinated before their examination in mid-March, the State Education Council stated the inability to stop candidates who were not vaccinated from appearing vaccination testing.
Recently the United States government told the Supreme Court that the vaccine was voluntary.
Senior officials in the State Department of Education only said that around 18% of students in the age group 15 to 18 years in Assam were fully vaccinated.
However, the Ministry of Education claims that more than 90% of students who qualify from this group have been vaccinated with the first dose.
The same thing is the appropriate percentage for the council examination which is more than six lakh in the state.
“We have not received instructions that have not yet been from the government mentioning that only candidates who have a Covid-19 vaccine, can appear for inspection.
The Education Council cannot make such decisions, except the Ministry of Health told it,” A senior official of the Assam secondary education council ( Ahsec) to Ti, Tuesday.
Sarma at a press conference on Monday said the government would ask the council exam participants to make themselves vaccinated before the exam.
Categorical, Sarma said he hoped that the Secondary Education Board and AHSEC would publish direction to students to get vaccination.
“If they take vaccines now, the double dose will be completed before the board check starts,” Sarma said.
Covid-19: Students in Assam were urged to be vaccinated before the board
