Coronavirus: Telangana SSC Board Exam 2020 postponed again

Telangana government has postponed class 10 board exams for an indefinite period. 

With the rising number of coronavirus cases in the state, the Telangana government has announced that it has decided to postpone Class 10 Board exams until further notice.

This is the second time, that the TS SSC Board exam has been postponed. However, this time it has been postponed for an indefinite period. Earlier, the Telangana High Court had ordered the Board to postpone the Telangana SSC board exams 2020 due to the COVID-19 spread. The TS SSC exams were deferred from March 23, onwards. 

The Telangana High Court had earlier permitted the government to conduct SSC exams everywhere in the state except in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation and Ranga Reddy districts that reported a high number of COVID-19 cases. However, the government has decided to postpone SSC 2020 exams for the whole state. The exams in Telangana state was scheduled from June 8 to July 5, 2020.

The court had also earlier said that the TS SSC exams can be conducted with precautions, except the GMHC area and Ranga Reddy districts.

The coronavirus outbreak and the subsequent lockdown in the state had forced the Telangana State Board of Secondary Education (TSBSE) to postpone the remaining three papers of SSC exams. Earlier, the Board exams that started on March 19 were postponed until March 31.  Later, the board was supposed to conduct the examinations from March 31 onwards until April 6, which was postponed and was scheduled to be conducted from June. However, now it has been again postponed.

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