The pandemic Corona is just not letting down, and this timeit is the state of Maharashtra has to bow before it.
Tentatively, the exams have been postponed with the class 10thexams to June, and the class 12th exams to May.
The exact dates will be decided and announced “on thedeveloping situation, which the administration is monitoring”, said the stateSchool Education Minister Varsha Gaikwad.
She elaborated that this decision to postpone the exams isnot unilateral, and the same has been reached in consultations with variousstakeholders such as students, teachers, parents, elected representatives fromacross parties, academicians, and tech giants.
She further detailed that various alternative assessment optionswere evaluated.
All this is in the backdrop of a potential for a completelockdown in case the Covid situation does not improve.