Maharashtra Board Exam 2021: Students demand cancellation of HSC exams

NEW DELHI: Maharashtra Education Minister Varsha Gaikwad has announced to postpone the Maharashtra HSC exam due to a surge in COVID-19 cases. It is expected that the Maharashtra HSC exam dates will fall in the last week of May. However, students took to Twitter, requesting to cancel Maharashtra Board exams 2021.

Hashtags like, #DONTIGNORE12THSTUDENTS, #cancel12thboardexams2021, #AlternativeAssessment, etc are trending on the Twitter. Students are tagging minister Varsha Gaikwad, prime minister Narendra Modi, CMO Maharashtra and high-level officials in their tweets requesting to cancel Maharashtra HSC exams .

A Twitter user, Dineshkumar Gupta, tweeted that more than 1 million students requested to take decisions as per the current situation for Class 12 students as soon as possible.

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More than 1 Million Students requested @PMOIndia @DrRPNishank @CMOMaharashtra @VarshaEGaikwad to take decisions as per current situation for class 12 students asap. Please #DONTIGNORE12THSTUDENTS pic.twitter.com/dTBmHwL2zF

— Prof. Dineshkumar Gupta (@dinesh_sir) May 4, 2021

There are thousands of students who tweeted about their mental health and how concerned they are. Students are asking to promote them using the internal assessment pattern.

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We can't focus on studies please listen students voice students of Maharashtra are tensed about there exams please cancel board exam or give internal assessment pattern for HSC students #cancel12thboardexams2021 #cancel12thboardexams2021

— Rashid Shaikh (@RashidS47615486) May 1, 2021

Students are also sharing funny memes demanding the cancellation of HSC exams as the state is recording the highest number of COVID-19 cases. However, Maharashtra board SSC exams are already cancelled due to the situation in the state.

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ME -: ( TO VARSHA MAM , HON. EDU. MINISTER OF MAHARASHTRA )
PLEASE CANCEL SSC AND HSC BOARD EXAM ..PLEASE PLEASE ..!!!!!
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VARSHA MAM TO ME -: pic.twitter.com/3fvvHxk1vf

— RR.Hydra (@RrHydra) April 19, 2021

In view of increasing cases of coronavirus, conducting Higher Secondary Certificate exams is not safe, students said on Twitter. Some students also said that conducting exams in the present situation can be of risk to the bright future of Maharashtra.

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महाराष्ट्र दिनाच्या भगव्या शुभेच्छा ! Jay Maharashtra ?
" जान है तो जहान हैं !! " Please Cancel HSC board Exams ! Seeing current condition of our state it is not time to conduct exam ! ???? @RealKingbhau @VarshaEGaikwad @RealBacchuKadu @dinesh_sir #cancel12thboardexams2021

— Pritam Chaudhari (@PritamIndian10) May 1, 2021

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