HRD Minister Ramesh Nishank Pokhriyal announced that CBSE will resume the CBSE board exam answer sheet evaluation from tomorrow May 10. Around 1.5 crore answer sheets will be delivered to the homes of board examiners so they can work in lockdown.
New Delhi, May 9:
The CBSE paper evaluation will be resumed from tomorrow, May 10, and CBSE board examiners will be able to carry out the CBSE board exam answer sheet evaluation from their respective homes.
HRD Minister Ramesh Nishank Pokhriyal took to Twitter on Saturday evening to announce the news and said that around 1.5 crore CBSE board exam answer sheets from around 3000 exam centres across India will be delivered to the homes of the board examiners who will carry out the checking process.
After the paper evaluation is done, officials will come and collect the answer sheets to take them back to the board exam centres.
The HRD minister repeated that the work will be started off from tomorrow — May 10 itself, and that the work will be completed in just 50 days so that the CBSE Board Exam Results 2020 do not get delayed.
HRD Minister thanks Home Minister for permission to carry out at-home paper evaluation
The HRD minister thanked the home ministry for giving this permission in the lockdown so that students can get the CBSE board exam results 2020 as soon as possible. Pokhriyal said that the whole process of CBSE answer sheet evaluation should be over within 50 days.
Pending CBSE board exams to be carried out from July 1 to July 15
On Friday, the HRD minister had announced on Twitter that the remaining CBSE board exams of Class 12 (all over India) and of Class 10 (only students whose exams were postponed due to North Delhi violence) will be carried out from July 1 to July 15.
The new CBSE board exam dates for each of the 29 subjects that are still to be conducted or the full CBSE board exam schedule after lockdown will be announced in 1-2 days he had said on his Twitter webinar on Friday.
‘1.5 to 2 months needed for CBSE paper evaluation’
In an exclusive interview with India Today on April 30, CBSE Secretary Anurag Tripathy had said that due to the Covid-19 lockdown which has now been extended for the third time and is set to continue till May 17, CBSE has been forced to put a complete halt to paper evaluation.
“We will need 1.5 to 2 months to carry out the paper evaluation. As soon as we get the advisory from the Central government, we can start off the paper evaluation process while maintaining social distancing,” he had said.
What is the CBSE paper evaluation status as of now?
The CBSE paper evaluation had started off around a week after the board exams started in February.
But after the Covid-19 pandemic started to spread its roots in India, the process had to be stopped completely after 15 days of paper evaluation.
Around 70% of CBSE answer sheets still need to be evaluated even though some of them were done in the 15 days of evaluation before the Covid-19 lockdown was imposed, Tripathy told us.
There are around 35 lakh students who appear for board exams and 2 crore CBSE answer sheets need to be checked, said the CBSE secretary.
He also said that certain state boards such as MP Board had already started off answer sheet evaluation while maintaining social distancing by keeping two to four teachers in a single room only.
What the HRD Minister said about board exam answer sheet evaluation earlier
On April 28, HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank met the education ministers of all the states and advised them to start off with the paper evaluation of state board exams.
He also asked the ministers to make provisions for CBSE to carry out their answer sheet evaluation in the respective states as well.
Students can check out this link for more details on the matter.
