MARGAO: The South Goa district administration has directed certain higher secondary schools that had planned to hold offline exams for their students beginning next week not to do so as it would violate the curfew restrictions in place.
In a letter addressed to the principals of Rosary Higher Secondary School at Navelim, Carmel Higher Secondary School at Nuvem, and St Andrew’s Higher Secondary School at Vasco, South Goa deputy collector Ramesh Gaonkar drew their attention to the order of the South Goa collector issued under section 144 of the CrPC on August 15, which stated, “School exams and holding competitive exams are permitted only with the prior approval of the government.”
Sources said that the three schools were to hold offline exams from Monday.
A section of students of Rosary Higher Secondary School, Navelim, had taken exception to this and had brought it to the notice of the district administration. AAP functionary Pratima Coutinho had also taken up the matter and had urged chief minister Pramod Sawant to intervene and resolve the issue.
The students had pointed out that other schools were holding online exams and demanded to know why they were being exposed to threat of the coronavirus.
