Nagpur: More than a hundred young people take to the streets in Nagpur on Monday to protest the board’s examination efforts in offline mode.
They say this is not a good decision considering Covid hasn’t been lost.
The city bus was damaged during protests, but students who attended there denied their involvement in damaging public property.
One of the protesters said they hit the streets in Nagpur and Mumbai, following the call given by social media influencer ‘Hindustan Bhau’.
The social media influencer itself led a group of students in Mumbai on Monday to the state education Minister Varsha Gaikwad, to demand an online exam or cancellation.
In video clips posted online on January 29, social media influencers have urged students from all over the country to protest in front of their education minister’s residence and demanding the cancellation of the council exam.
“The parliamentarians themselves held meetings online, because they feared their lives.
So why did they put the lives of students at risk,” he said in a monologue video, where he also mentions protests in Mumbai.
Some students from Nagpur seemed to be clearly influenced by their calls, and went down to the streets.
A protesters told TOI that the council exam for STD X and XII must be done online.
Ritesh Patil, a STD XII student said, “We got the location of protests through Hindustan Bhau, the Instagram posts provided details.
So we all reached there.
We have learned online for the past two years, so the exam must be done in the same way.” Patil say no one is ready to listen to students, so they go up to the streets.
“We were ignored by everyone, so it tastes good that Hindustan Bhau cares about us and struggles for us,” Patil said.
Many students protest the exam, for fear of covid, looks without a mask or do not use it properly.
Some who use bikes do not wear a helmet, and at least one bicycle has three young men on it.
State education officials have ruled out possible examinations online or canceled.