Assam Boards: Marksheets prepared without exam will be eligible for govt jobs

GUWAHATI: The Assam government on Thursday took the final decision to not conduct 10 and 12 board examinations in the state.

The decision was taken after a meeting held between education Minister and students' union.

During the meeting, it was finalized that the marksheets prepared using the earlier said evaluation process will be eligible for all government jobs.

The state government informed that the rank system has been scrapped. However, star and distinction tags will be given.

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Earlier Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Ripun Bora and Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi, had slammed the Assam government for creating confusion among the students regarding the examinations.

Bora said that the HSLC and HS examinations were canceled followed by a chain of agreements and disagreements. Later a decision was taken to conduct the examinations citing the reason that the state didn’t have the system of calculating internal assessment. However, the decision was once again changed and once again the exam was canceled.

Also, the confusion regarding eligibility of marksheets was prevailing.

Accusing the BJP government of creating confusion among the students, Bora said, “Sitting on either poles, both the Chief Minister and Education Minister have created an atmosphere of misgovernance”.

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