The government of Madhya Pradesh is considering administering university-level exams through online mode in view of the increasing cases of Covid-19, said Home Affairs Minister Dr. Narottam Mishra Monday. He said few MLAs have required the government to ask universities to conduct exams online rather than offline, adding that the state government will seriously consider the question posed by them. This comes after the MP board moved the offline pre-board exams from classes 10 and 12 to home mode.
The minister made the statement while answering a question at a press conference in Bhopal. Asked if the government is considering MLA’s demands to hold college exams in online mode, Mishra said, “Respected MLAs have demanded this. The government is taking their demand into account and will certainly consider it.”
संक्रमण को देखते हुए कुछ साथी विधायकों ने कॉलेज की परीक्षाएं ऑफलाइन की जगह ऑनलाइन मोड से करवाने की मांग की है।सरकार सदैव की तरह विधायकों की इस मांग पर भी गंभीरता से विचार करेगी।#MPFightsCorona #Corona pic.twitter.com/Y2sszTASup
— Dr. Narottam Mishra (@drnarottammisra) January 17, 2022
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As most universities in Madhya Pradesh are going to conduct exams offline with 50 percent seating capacity in a classroom, the student wing of opposition party Congress’ National Students’ Union Of India (NSUI), Madhya Pradesh unit has held protests against the offline exams in the state universities amid the third wave of coronavirus.
“Today, under the leadership of Shahdol NSUI Secretary of State Hemant Sharma, following the Kovid guidelines, a memorandum has been submitted on behalf of the Minister of Higher Education to the Tehsildar for conducting the exam online or by open book method from January 17 at Shahdol Postgraduate College , Budhar,” tweeted NSUI. (sic)
“Today the whole country is gripped by the third wave of corona epidemics, taking the exams of lakhs of students of the BU offline is like playing with the lives of the students @ChouhanShivraj Chief Minister, get online as soon as possible to take exams for the better future & safety of the students. decide,” added the student union. (sic)
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Given the Covid-19 situation in Madhya Pradesh, on January 14, the state government had asked all private and government schools to remain closed until January 31. The government had also announced that the preparatory exams of grades 10 and 12 have been shifted to home mode, where students take the question sheet and answer sheet from their school and write the answer on the answer sheet at home. Later they have to hand in the answer sheet to their school. However, higher education institutions were asked to continue their classes and hold semester exams with a 50 percent seating capacity.
Mishra also said that a total of 6,970 new cases of Coronavirus have been registered in the state in the past 24 hours. The total number of active cases in the state is 34,973. Right now, the Covid-19 positivity rate in the state stands at 9.10 percent and the recovery rate is 94.38 percent.
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