- By Sakshi Gupta
- Tue, 20 Feb 2024 01:30 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
CBSE Board Exams 2025-26: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has announced that beginning with the academic year 2025-26, students would be able to take 10th and 12th grade board exams twice a year.
One of the goals of the new National Education Policy (NEP), which will be announced in 2020, is to minimize academic stress on children, Pradhan stated on Monday after launching the PM SHRI (Prime Minister Schools for Rising India) initiative in Chhattisgarh, which would rehabilitate 211 schools in the state.
The event took place in Raipur's Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Auditorium.
The minister emphasized the notion of implementing ten bag-free days in schools each year, as well as engaging children in art, culture, and sports, among other things.
Pradhan stated that students would be able to take the 10th and 12th grade board examinations twice beginning with the 2025-26 academic year, as part of the Centre's NEP 2020 strategy.
According to the New Curriculum Framework (NCF), which was released by the Ministry of Education in August of last year, board exams would be held at least twice a year to ensure that students have enough time and opportunity to perform effectively. They will also have the choice to keep the top score.
Pradhan asked students in attendance at the occasion whether they were satisfied with the decision and advised them to preserve the best grades acquired after taking both tests.
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"Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji's vision through the NEP is to keep students stress-free, enrich them with quality education, keep students linked with culture and prepare them for the future. This is the formula for making India a developed country by 2047," he said.
Pradhan attacked the previous Congress administration in the state, claiming that education was not a priority, but the important sector has gotten top attention since the BJP came to power and new Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai took office in December last year.
The first phase of the PM SHRI project would renovate 211 schools in Chhattisgarh using a 'hub and spoke' concept, with each receiving Rs 2 crore, according to a Union minister.
Under the plan, the mentor institution, known as the 'hub', will be centralised and will be responsible for directing the mentee institution through the secondary branches, known as the 'spoke', through self-improvement services offered to the mentees.
According to a request made by Chhattisgarh's School and Upper Education Minister Brijmohan Agrawal, additional secondary and upper secondary schools would be covered by the initiative in its next phase, Pradhan stated.
He stated that India will seek to host the 2036 Olympics Games and that he expects Chhattisgarh athletes to provide 10% of the country's medals in the quadrennial event, with preparations beginning this year.
Chief Minister Sai, Minister Agrawal, and other key officials attended the event.