Mumbai: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav demanded that students should be vaccinated against COVID-19 before board exams are conducted.
“Pahle tika, fir pariksha (first vaccination, then examination). No Examination Without Vaccination,” Yadav tweeted.
https://twitter.com/yadavakhilesh/status/1397040809128587266?s=20
As the government is in the process of deciding on the Class 12 board exams and subsequent entrance examinations, which were postponed due to the second wave of COVID-19, some quarters have been demanded that if the examinations are to be conducted, the students be vaccinated first.
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In a high-level meeting convened by the Ministry of Education earlier this week, Delhi, Kerala and a few others demanded vaccination of students before the examination.
After the meeting on Sunday, Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ said that there is a broad consensus among the states for the conduct of class 12 board examinations and an ‘informed, cooperative’ decision will be taken by June 1.
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