A day after the CBSE and the CISCE cancelled their Class 12 board examinations, a cloud of uncertainty continued to hover over the destiny of the West Bengal board exams.
Top officers of the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) and the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) Wednesday cancelled a scheduled joint press meet the place they had been presupposed to announce their determination on the scheduling of the Madhyamik (Class 10) and Higher Secondary (Class 12) exams this 12 months.
However, holding out hope of the exams being scheduled at a later date, the state authorities Wednesday shaped a six-member skilled committee to counsel methods of conducting the exams and evaluating papers through the Covid-19 scenario. The panel has been requested to submit its report back to the federal government inside 72 hours.
The School Education Department issued a discover, saying, “In view of prevailing Covid-19 pandemic situation, the Writ Petition filed before the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India regarding conduction of Higher Secondary Examinations and the decision taken by CBSE and CISCE Boards to cancel the Higher Secondary Examinations 2021, the competent authority in the State Government has decided to constitute an expert committee to review and evaluate the current situation read with the outcome of the Writ Petition filed before Hon’ble Supreme Court and to submit its recommendations within 72 hours to the State Government in the School Education Department.”
According to sources, a choice on whether or not to carry the state board exams will probably be taken as soon as the skilled committee submits its report. WBBSE president Kalyanmoy Ganguly, WBCHSE president Mohua Das and Chairperson of West Bengal Commission for the Protection of Child Rights, Ananya Chakraborty will probably be part of the skilled committee.
The Centre, Tuesday, determined to cancel the category 12 board examination of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in view of the pandemic scenario. The determination was taken at a gathering chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Later within the day, the Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) scrapped its Class 12 ISC exams as properly.
On May 25, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee introduced that the state board exams for sophistication 12 will probably be held within the final week of July and the one for sophistication 10 will probably be scheduled in mid-August.
The CM had added that each the exams will probably be held at dwelling centres and just for obligatory topics. The Madhyamik had been earlier scheduled to happen from June 1 and the Higher Secondary from June 15.
However, because of a fast surge in Covid-19 circumstances within the second wave of an infection and subsequent lockdown restrictions in place throughout the state, each the board exams had been postponed. The state had earlier introduced the cancellation of the clas 11 examinations, saying all college students are to be promoted to class 12.
The CM had stated a shorter examination of 90-minute period will probably be carried out for every main topic in the identical faculties the place college students are enrolled as an alternative of being held externally at examination centres. For different topics, the faculties will consider college students primarily based on their inner assessments, Banerjee stated.