No common assessment for classes 5, 8, 9, 11 in Karnataka this year
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Bengaluru: Karnataka's school education and literacy minister, Madhu Bangarappa, announced on Friday that state board schools will not hold common assessments for classes 5, 8, 9, and 11 this academic year. Instead, summative assessment-2 will be conducted for classes 5, 8, and 9. This decision follows the state’s recent withdrawal of exam notifications in three districts, a move that came after a reprimand from the Supreme Court during hearings on appeals against the Karnataka High Court’s decision to uphold the exams last year.
Bangarappa explained that although board exams were introduced for these classes to reduce fear and anxiety, the case is currently pending in the Supreme Court, and the state will comply with its final order. Initially, the Karnataka government had announced common assessments, with question papers prepared by the Karnataka School Examination and Assessment Board and evaluations at the taluk level. However, private schools opposed the move and approached the courts, leading to a series of legal proceedings, including an interim stay by the Supreme Court in March this year.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
