COVID-19: CBSE sets new rules for exam centres as precautionary against coronavirus spread

The CBSE Board has led strict guidelines in order to take precautionary steps against COVID-19 spread during the examinations.

Amid this emergency crisis of coronavirus outbreak, Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is still conducting the CBSE Board Exams 2020. The examinations that were supposed to be ended by March 30, 2020, will now conclude on April 14. However, the Board has led strict guidelines in order to take precautionary steps against COVID-19 spread during the examinations.

In compliance with the orders, special arrangements have been made by the schools regarding appropriate distancing between the students. The CBSE is at the last leg of its ongoing Board Examinations for class 10 and 12. While state governments have shut down schools, colleges, universities, and other academic institutions in order to stop the spread of coronavirus, CBSE examinations are ongoing. Earlier, the Board had released an advisory in which it allowed the students to carry masks and sanitisers during examinations. Later, the Board assured worried students and their parents that special arrangements are being made in the examination centres to curb the spread of the Epidemic.

Now, in the latest notice released by the CBSE, the Board has set few rules to be followed as precautionary against the disease spread. The CBSE has sent letters to the examination centres and their respective superintendents requesting them to follow the rule and precautions listed below:

1. The exam centres must ensure that the distance between two examinees is not less than 1 metre.
2. In the case of small rooms, the centres must half the number of students allowed in one room (for example, from 24 to 12), to ensure adequate distance. In this situation, the invigilators would be divided between the two rooms thus created.
3. Students are allowed to carry masks and sanitizers. Examination centres are also requested to keep an ample amount of sanitizers.
4. The school may utilize all the available rooms and space at the centre to ensure the distance and precaution for students.
5. The board has also advised the examination centres to educate the invigilators about proper precautions. The invigilators have also been asked to look out for symptoms and take necessary steps to prevent any contact between the examinees. All the measures have to be brought into effect from tomorrow, i.e. CBSE Class 12 Maths examination onwards.

So far, the total of coronavirus cases in India has reached to 129. COVID-19 has claimed three lives, each in Delhi, Maharashtra, and Kerala. Students, teachers, and examination authorities are requested to follow the precautionary seriously in order to battle the spread of Coronavirus.  

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