Pending board exams in Tripura postponed again

Tripura Board of Secondary Education (TBSE) has postponed pending papers of Class 10 and 12 board exams supposed to start from June 5 in view of lockdown in containment zones till June 30, a board official said.

This is for second time that exams have been postponed in state after anuncement of lockdown. President of TBSE Bhabatosh Saha told reporters on Monday, board h in May rescheduled examinations in consultation with Tripura government.

exams were to be held between June 5 and June 11, he said. "We h taken all preparations to conduct board examinations of pending papers of Class 10 and 12 from June 5. w, we have to reschedule dates again," Saha said.

Prior to first phase of lockdown, exams for many papers were held while many could t be completed. For Class 10, pending examinations for Physical Science and Life Science were to be held on June 5 and June 6 respectively.

Class 12 students were supposed to sit for examinations of Sanskrit and Statistics on June 5, Ecomics on June 6, Psychology on June 8, Arabic and Music on June 9, Geography on June 10 and Home Manment and Home Nursing and Nutrition on June 11.

Home Ministry h said on Saturday that 'Unlock-1' would be initiated across country from June 8, in which nationwide lockdown from March 25 would be relaxed to a great extent even as strict restrictions would remain in places till June 30 in containment zones. Centre has given more powers to states and union territories to ascertain and define a containment zone.