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Aaditya Thackeray requests PM Modi to postpone exams amid COVID-19 crisis

August 25, 2020, 7:00 PM

Sneha Shah | Mumbai

Aaditya Thackeray

Aaditya Thackeray

Maharashtra Cabinet Minister and Yuva Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray wrote to a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting him to postpone all academic activities and examinations in the country to prevent further spike of infection amid COVID-19 crisis.

Thackeray also suggested starting the academic year from January 2021, instead of June/July 2020, so that students do not lose a year. Attaching a copy of the letter on his twitter handle, Thackeray tweeted, I have written to the Hon?ble Prime Minister, Shri @narendramodi ji on the health risk that the proposed exams of various streams, and entrance exams, would have for students and families across India and for his personal intervention.

The letter read, Under your leadership, we are fighting the battle against Covid nationally, India has put up a strong fight and citizens are doing their best to fight Covid as well.

Sir, I most humbly wish to draw your attention to the plight of the students. While most of our country is still working from home due to increasing Covid numbers, the various institutions and universities for professional and non-professional courses have been trying to schedule examinations.

This isn’t a practical and feasible option sir, as most states are facing increasing numbers of Covid, along with red zones still in place and transport yet to resume.

More so sir, wherever in the world schools and colleges have re-opened, large number of Covid cases have been found in our country, most students live with their parents and grandparents and the infection, if at all can be fatal.

The system for even a single paper would include not just students, but teachers, non-teaching staff and much more of the state apparatus, most of whom are in the high risk group.

Sir, I humbly request you to intervene and postpone all academic activity to do with physical or online examinations across the country, for all professional courses, including entrance exams.

For the non-professional courses, most of their academic assessment has been carried out and the final examination wouldn’t amount to more than 10% of assessment, hence they may be passed on a marking system devised by the universities.

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We may also think of starting our academic year from January 2021 instead of June/July 2020 so that no student loses the academic year.

Sir I’m sure that with this intervention, we would be able to prevent a larger spike in infection and contribute to our fight in keeping our citizens safe.

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Active COVID cases near 30,000 mark in Nagpur

Published

4 years ago

January 25, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally, on Tuesday, January 25, reached 5,43,064 (till 5 pm) as 4028 (972 from rural and 2956 from city) new cases were recorded in a single day.

Also, active COVID cases, as on Tuesday, could be seen inching closer to 30,000 mark in the district.

Six people lost their lives (one from rural and five from city) on Tuesday. Till now, 10,183 people have lost their lives due to COVID-19 in the district. Total tests taken were 11,377.

While patients who recovered on Tuesday were 2519, the total number of recovered patients stood at 503729.

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Nagpur reports 90 COVID cases in past 24 hours

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4 years ago

January 2, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally on Sunday, January 2 reached 4,94,193 (till 5 pm) as 90 (73 city, nine rural) more people tested positive for the virus.

Also, five patients recovered on Sunday taking the number of recoveries to 4,83,664.

Till now, 10123 people have lost their lives due to COVID in the district. As of now, there are 406 active COVID patients in the district.

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ALARMING! Nagpur reports 88 COVID cases in past 24 hours

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4 years ago

December 31, 2021

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur registered 88 (81 from city) new COVID-19 positive cases on Friday, December 31. Nagpur previously had recorded as minimum as six cases on December 24.