No mass promotion for students, say officials

There is not going to be any mass promotion in primary and secondary classes and examinations will be conducted in schools according to exigency of the situation, asserted Government officials and school authorities. While Board examination dates for sensitive areas are yet to be decided, other examinations are expected to get over by April 15.

R K Chaudhry, Director of Primary Education, has said that some schools had already prepared their schedules, but admitted that exams might get delayed in disturbed areas by a week or more. He said education committees in their respective districts could finalise the exam schedules.

He said that he had received a message from Ahmedabad Municipal School Board on conducting examinations. School Board Chairman Dinesh Raval said that he had sought the State Government’s advice in the matter and a reply was awaited. He said exams in municipal primary schools were likely to get over by April 20 in any case.

Additional Secretary for Secondary Education Gangasinh Parmar said that delay of a couple of days in secondary school exams might take place depending on the local condition.

Bhaskarbhai Patel, Secretary of Ahmedabad School Managements Association, said secondary school exams in the city’s high schools will get over by April 14.

‘‘All schools are free to decide their exam dates but of course, students in the walled city will have to be provided with a separate arrangement and they will be considered for a retest if things did not normalise soon,’’ he said.

He said the association, which has around 412 schools under it, had last met on March 7 to discuss the situation. Gujarat Secondary School Board Chairman G K Patel has already asked us to complete the examinations by April 15, he said.

Republished from The Indian Express