Cancel Class 10, 12 Board Exams: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra To Centre

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has urged Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal to re-think holding board exams for Class 10 and 12 CBSE school students as the number of daily new Covid cases in the country continues to climb.

In her letter to the minister, she said by forcing children to sit for these exams during a raging pandemic, the Government and the CBSE board will be held responsible if any exam centre becomes a hotspot with a large numbers of children becoming infected with the disease.

She said with over one lakh cases of COVID-19 being reported across the country, lakhs of children and parents have expressed fear and apprehension about assembling at exam centres to sit for the exams in the middle of the second wave of COVID-19.

Congress leader took to her Twitter handle to share the copy of her letter to Education Minister. She tweeted:

Besides Priyanka Gandhi, actor Sonu Sood tweeted a video and appealed authorities to re-consider conducting the exams. The actor wrote: "I request everyone to support students who are forced to appear for offline board exams in these tough times. With the number of cases rising to 145k a day I feel there should be an internal assessment method to promote them rather than risking so many lives."

India on Sunday reported 1,52,879 new Covid-19 cases and 839 deaths in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Union Health Ministry. The total number of cases in the country now stand at 1,33,58,805 and the death toll has risen to 1,69,275.