This story is from June 7, 2020

Telangana: Cancel exam, don’t postpone, urge parents of SSC students

The state should cancel the SSC examinations instead of postponing them incessantly, urged parents of pupils who are forced to travel from other states and district to appear for the exams. The demand came in the backdrop of the exams getting postponed again, after the high court directed state to reschedule them in view of Covid-19 fear.
Telangana: Cancel exam, don’t postpone, urge parents of SSC students
HYDERABAD: The state should cancel the SSC examinations instead of postponing them incessantly, urged parents of pupils who are forced to travel from other states and district to appear for the exams. The demand came in the backdrop of the exams getting postponed again, after the high court directed state to reschedule them in view of Covid-19 fear.

Many of the parents, including those living at their home districts, who had to travel for days to reach their destination on Friday or Saturday, said that it’s not fair on the state’s part to take such last-minute decisions.
“It took us three days to reach Adilabad. Initially, we were stopped at Maharashtra border and were made to undergo medical tests and then again at the Telangana border,” said Dattatreya Bejankiwar, a farmer who is a resident of Yavatmal, Maharashtra. He added that they had to cross four check posts and walk for about three to four kilometres at each of these check posts.
On hearing that exams are postponed, Bejankiwar said: “I had spent Rs 6,000 so that my son can appear for SSC exams. Now, I have to go to Adilabad and get him back to Maharashtra as no one knows when the exams will be conducted. Also, he might have to be under home quarantine. Why put us through this trouble.”
Parents of students who are stuck in other states said that the state should just cancel the examinations.
“I have no money to send my son to Karimnagar to appear for the exams. Instead of postponing, why can’t the state just cancel them like other states? The children are in no state to write exams and many parents have no means to support them and fund their transportation and accommodation in other states,” said Sagar Nagulwar, a construction labourer from Chandrapur, Maharashtra.

K Narayana, another parent who travelled from Mahabubnagar to Sarroornagar so that his daughter Roja can appear for the exam, said: “Even when we had no money or place to stay, my daughter and I reached Hyderabad on Saturday so that she can write her exams.”
“Our owner did not let us stay at our rented accommodation and asked us to stay in another building,” said Narayana, a migrant labourers, adding that he will stay for another couple of months in the city.
“We don’t have the money to go back and come again. So, we will see for another two to three months as the owner said that I can work as a watchman here,” he said.
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