The CM has given a highlight to the Education Department to study the formula being used by boards like CBSE for assigning marks to students of Classes 10 and 12 whose exams stood canceled due to the pandemic.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday directed the state Education Department to do all the possible ways in restarting schools and colleges for students of Classes 10 and 12 in the villages who all are free from covid cases. In terms of those villages and towns where coronavirus cases are not found from the beginning of the pandemic further, those areas could be considered for reopening of schools and colleges. However, Students can start going to schools and colleges and attend classes like the pre-pandemic period Thackeray adds.
The cm also asks the Education department officials to explore such villages and towns where schools and colleges can be allowed to resume.A meeting was held related to this, in which Maharashtra School Education Minister Varsha Gaikwad, state Chief Secretary Sitaram Kunte, Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) in the CMO Ashishkumar Singh, ACS, School Education Department Vandana Krisha, CMO Principal Secretary Vikas Kharage, and other officials of the school education department were present.
In the meeting, Varsha Gaikwad addressed the situation in which many children have lost both of their parents. Database of those students will help in the frame of a state-level policy of bearing their educational expenses. Besides, the chief minister told Varsha Gaikwad to submit the proposal with an estimated requirement of the funds.
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