The Punjab government has decided to promote class 5, 8 students based on examinations held. Due to the ongoing lockdown extends till May 1, 2020, the decision of promoting students to the next grade has been taken.
Chief Minister Amarinder Singh tweet says, “Decided to promote all Class V & Class VIII students.”
#Punjab cabinet decides to promote all class 5 and 8 students.Two exams for class 5 & practicals for class 8 were pending. Board exams for both classes had made a comeback in Pb after a decade, following RTE amendment scrapping no-detention policy @IndianExpress @ieeducation_job
— Divya Goyal (@divya5521) April 10, 2020
Class 5 is left with two papers, while practicals for class 8 are pending.
The official release says, “The cabinet minister said that PSEB has conducted three examinations of class V before imposition of curfew and now the cabinet has decided to cancel the remaining two papers. He added that in the case of class VIII, the practical examinations were pending but now the board would declare the results without conducting any further examinations for both the classes.”
Continued….
3. Decided to constitute 15 member Task Force of professionals to prepare strategy to exit from lockdown.
4. Decided to promote all Class V & Class VIII students. (2/2)#PunjabFightsCorona— Capt.Amarinder Singh (@capt_amarinder) April 10, 2020
For both the government and private schools in the state, the summer vacations had also been preponed and the same will now be from April 11 to May 10, 2020.
“Punjab education minister Vijay Inder Singla informed that Punjab cabinet under the chairmanship of CM Captain Amarinder Singh has decided to prepone summer vacations of both government and private schools in the state to cope up the study losses due to lockdown imposed to avert coronavirus,” the release mentioned.
#Punjab education minister Vijay Inder Singla said Punjab cabinet has also decided to prepone summer vacations of both government and private schools. Now, the one-month summer vacations will start from April 11 till May 10 @IndianExpress @ieeducation_job #coronavirus
— Divya Goyal (@divya5521) April 10, 2020
Moreover, the Punjab government earlier decided to promote government school students from pre-primary to class 4 without annual exams.
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