Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma, who holds the education portfolio, said that the decision had been taken in view of the closure of schools. “The students will be promoted on the basis of the performance all year round,” reported by Swarajya.

Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has decided to promote all students up to class 8 to the next class without examinations. earlier the UP government has closed all the schools till April 2 due to possible corona virus spread.

Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma, who holds the education portfolio, said that the decision had been taken in view of the closure of schools. “The students will be promoted on the basis of the performance all year round.”

The directive to this effect was issued by Additional Chief Secretary Renuka Kumar on Wednesday (17 March), 

The state government has also postponed the evaluation of answer sheets for the 2020 high school and intermediate examinations till 2 April.

The decision came after groups of teachers refrained themselves from evaluation centres due to the corona scare.

The postponement of the evaluation process will now lead to a delay in the announcement of results for high school and intermediate.

According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, so far 15 positive cases of COVID-19 have been reported from Uttar Pradesh.

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