Despite opposition demands cancellation, AP SSC, Inter exams 2021 to go as per schedule

The Andhra Pradesh government on Friday said the class 10 or SSC and intermediate examinations would be held as per schedule amid a demand by the Opposition parties to cancel or postpone them in view of Covid-19 spread.

The degree and engineering examinations too would be conducted, the government said. At a high-level review meeting on the prevailing Covid situation, Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy asked the authorities to hold the examinations by following all



protocols.

Ensure that the students do not suffer any loss and conduct the examinations. Follow all Covid protocols while conducting the exams, a press release quoted the Chief Minister as saying. He asked the officials not to be lax in this.

All the Opposition parties – TDP, BJP, Jana Sena and Congress – have been demanding the government to either cancel or postpone the year-end examinations, particularly for SSC and intermediate, as the pandemic was again peaking.