From distributing masks to students to disinfecting the examination centres twice in a day, the Tamil Nadu government is taking every possible step to ensure the safety of students and teachers from coronavirus while conducting the Class 10 exam. Read more below about other important steps taken by the government:
The Tamil Nadu Board will be conducting the Class 10 exam soon, for that besides establishing special examination centres for the benefit of those in the containment zones, the government is also planning to strictly enforce social distancing norms too for students appearing for the exam.
The Tamil Nadu 10th board examinations were scheduled to be held from June 1 to June 12. However, it has now been decided to be conducted from June 15 to June 25, as the nationwide coronavirus lockdown has been extended again until May 31.
Earlier, as per the Tamil Nadu 10th Date Sheet 2020, exams were initially supposed to be conducted from March 27, however, due to coronavirus outbreak, they were postponed.
For the Tamil Nadu 12th Board students who could not appear for the board exam paper on March 24, there will be an exam on June 4.
The state government is also planning to distribute masks to around 46.37 lakh students of class 10 and higher secondary, including teachers and other staff on duty during the examination period.
Aiming to allay apprehensions of parents and students over the possible contract of coronavirus while appearing for the board exams, the government said a total of 12,690 examination centres have been readied for the students.
"Strict social distancing norms will be implemented and only 10 students will be allowed to write an exam in each hall in their respective schools. So, this will avoid students from travelling to common examination centres," an official told a media house.
About 9.7 lakh students will appear for the exams since rescheduled following request from parents, it said. Further, the students coming from other districts or states would not be quarantined, but instead allowed to write the exams in separate halls within the common centres.
Both the examination and evaluation centres will be disinfected twice a day. Alternative examination centres will be set up for containment zones. Students from the containment zones could write the exam from the special examination centres, the official said.
About 2.22 lakh teachers and staff will be involved in the 10th exams while 1.65 lakh teachers and staff will be roped in for the higher secondary exams.
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