Arunachal Pradesh Education Minister Er Taba Tedir while attending a Video Conference organised by Ministry of Education for all Education Ministers of the states to discuss strategy for conducting class 12 exams suggested various points regarding the same to the Government of India.

The meeting was attended by Defense minister Rajnath Singh, Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank , Minister of Education, Smriti Irani, Minister, Women and Child development, Prakash Javedkar, Minister, Information and Broadcasting, Sanjay Dhotre, MoS, Education, HCMs of various states, DCM of states, Minister colleagues of various states, ACS, Principal Secretaries , Commissioners and secretaries of education department of various states.

The suggestions of Hon’ble Minister regarding CBSE Class XII examinations in the meeting to the Government of India were that Since Arunachal is a vast and scattered state with uneven network connectivity. The best suitable way to conduct examination would be through offline mode.

Duration of examination may be reduced to 60 minutes for minor subjects 90 minutes for major subjects with multiple choice questions. (These major & minor to be decided by CBSE). These examination to he conducted in two shifts morning (major paper) evening (minor paper)

The conduct of examination should be of short duration may be for 3 days by conducting the examination in morning and evening shift. With Major and minor papers. Declaration of results may be done within 15 days.

Exam should also be conducted for students those who will not be able to appear due to containment zone or lockdown. Students will appear for the exams from the school they are enrolled. With regard to enterance exams have suggested to increase the numbers of exam centres so as to avoid crowd and travelling.

District administrations, facilities of SSB, APPSCE may be used to conduct exams in one phase for entrance examination. Further they have suggested to increase the Exam centre for NEET as at present there are only two centres, (Naharlagun & Itanagar). Thus few more districts such such Tezu, Pasighat, Bomdila, Namsai etc may be taken into consideration to conduct NEET exams.