Education Minister to conduct meeting with state education secretaries today
India TodayUnion Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal will be conducting a virtual meeting with all the state education secretaries today, May 17, to review the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown on the education sector of the country. This is most likely the first time Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal is meeting with the state education secretaries amid the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. Even though no official announcement has been made in this regard yet, students are speculating that the education minister will also discuss the conduction of the upcoming CBSE board exams 2021 for Class 12 students in the virtual meeting today. The Central Board of Secondary Education has also postponed the exams once and cancelled the CBSE Class 10 exams due to the Covid-19 pandemic.