Students On Their Way To School

"This is situation happened on Friday morning where due to the holidays declared for Ayodhya verdict after it was cancelled of and force them to differ the exams"
It was a chaotic situation on Friday morning in many of the city schools where the mid-term examinations were to begin. The managements were worried that even a five per cent dip in attendance —

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due to the holidays declared in anticipation of the Ayodhya verdict but cancelled after it was put off — would force them to defer the exams. To their surprise, the students turned up cent per cent but what failed to reach was the question papers.

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• Altogether 450 high schools in the city, which subscribed to common question papers, faced this situation. D Shashi Kumar, principal of Blossoms School, said, “It was only when we contacted the Bangalore North District High School Teachers and Junior Principals Association, we were told the exams had been postponed.”

• Association secretary Venkataramegowda said, “The state government’s order revoking the holiday came in the afternoon on Thursday. So, we hardly had the time to communicate it to schools. Hence, we have decided to defer Friday’s examination to Oct 4 and Saturday’s paper to Oct 5.”