The examinations will be held at home centres
The Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) is considering a plan to conduct class X matriculation and intermediate class XII examination in the last week of March. The JAC body is likely to announce the examination schedules this week.
Unlike previous years, the JAC is also contemplating plans to hold the class X (matriculation) and intermediate examination in home centres which means that students will write their final examination from the schools in which they are studying. Sources said that JAC is contemplating plans to hold the examination at home centre due to the corona pandemic.
A senior official at JAC requesting anonymity said, “Though the cases of corona have come down in state with active cases too declining day by day. But we don’t want to take risks with our students as the movement of students will lead to the spread of the pandemic.”
The JAC body recently held a video conferencing with District Education Officers (DEOs) where the District Education Officers were asked to provide the details of schools in their respective blocks. The officials have also been asked to provide the necessary infrastructure at schools and distance of schools from banks.
CBSE too has held examinations at home centres to ensure that students don’t have to travel far amidst the pandemic fear. For JAC, there are 700 examination centres for matriculation and intermediate examinations. The JAC is planning to increase the examination centres to 3400. The JAC will prepare the list of examination centres as per inputs provided by DEOs based on which the report will be sent to the State Education department for final approval.
As the schools were closed due to pandemic with offline studies suspended, the JAC class X and intermediate class XII question papers will be on 75 per cent of syllabus. The JAC has already decided to cut the syllabus by 25 per cent.
The JAC body has issued model question papers for class X and class XII intermediate examination. The JAC examination process gained momentum after it got a new chairman and vice chairman in December last year.
Ranchi University former examination controller and Binod Bihari Mahto Koylanchal University former Pro Vice Chancellor Prof Anil Kumar Mahto has been appointed as new Chairman of Jharkhand Academic Council. The new chairman was given all power to accelerate the pending works of Jharkhand Academic Council.
At the same time Prof Vinod Singh has been appointed as deputy chairman of JAC. JAC has been running headless since the end of former chairperson Arvind Prasad Singh’s tenure in September. Phool Singh, the Vice Chairman of JAC too, ended in September this year.
The State Government also named Prof Vinod Singh as deputy chairman of JAC. JAC has been running headless since the end of former chairperson Arvind Prasad Singh’s tenure in September. Phool Singh, the Vice Chairman of JAC too, ended in September this year.