Rajasthan govt cancels UG, PG exams amid COVID, all students to be promoted

Rajasthan government cancelled all UG/PG exams for all the colleges, universities for the academic year 2019-20 and decided to promote the students without conducting exams.

Jaipur (Rajasthan): In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Rajasthan government has decided to cancel all graduation and Postgraduation examination for all the colleges, universities and technical education institutes for the academic year 2019-20.

The state government has decided to promote students to the successive class without examinations.

"The process to determine marks of the students and the promotion to the next class will be decided after examining the guidelines which will be issued by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD)," the state government said.

Earlier on 28th June, Supreme Court dismissed the plea filed by a student's parent seeking cancellation of remaining board exams for class 10 on June 29 and 30.

The plea cited the recent Supreme Court decision in the CBSE plea after which the centre decided not to go ahead with the remaining CBSE exams for class 10 and 12.

The top court stated that there were no positive cases in the examination centres in the last one month. It also said that the state government is taking all due precaution to ensure students' safety.

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(With inputs from ANI)