Bengaluru: The government of Karnataka has decided to postpone the Karnataka 2nd PUC exams or Class 12 board exams in the state in view of the increase in Covid-19 cases in the past few weeks. The announcement of the postponement of the exams was made by the state education minister.
Karnataka School Education Minister S Suresh Kumar further announced that the state board exams for Class 12 students, which were earlier scheduled to be conducted from May 24 to June 6, stand postponed and new dates will be announced soon.
Till now, the government has expressed no plans to cancel the Karnataka Class 12 board exams, even though several students and parents are urging the same. The exams are set to be conducted in offline mode this year.
Karnataka Class 11 students to be promoted
Apart from the postponement of the Class 12 board exams in Karnataka, the Class 11 final exams in the state stand cancelled in view of the current Covid-19 situation.
The students of Class 11 in Karnataka will be promoted to their higher class without the conduction of the exams and bridge courses will be planned during the commencement of the new academic year, as per the official announcement.
Minister S Suresh Kumar has further said that all the teachers are permitted to work from home during this time and they need to be in touch with the students, to monitor their learning progress incessantly. Those teachers who are on covid duty will continue to work so.
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Mumbai, Mar 28: The facility to exchange or deposit Rs 2,000 banknotes will not be available on Monday, April 1, 2024 due to operations associated with the annual closing of accounts, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said on Friday.
The facility will resume on Tuesday (April 2, 2024) at the 19 issue offices of the RBI, it added.
"The facility of exchange/deposit of Rs 2,000 banknotes will not be available on Monday, April 1, 2024 at the 19 issue offices of the Reserve Bank of India due to operations associated with the annual closing of accounts," it said.
On May 19, 2023, the RBI announced the withdrawal of Rs 2,000 denomination bank notes from circulation.
Nearly 97.62 per cent of the Rs 2,000 bank notes have returned to the banking system at the close of business on February 29, and only about Rs 8,470 crore worth of the withdrawn notes are still with the public.
People can deposit and/or exchange Rs 2,000 bank notes at the 19 RBI offices across the country.
People can also send Rs 2,000 bank notes through India Post from any post office to any of the RBI issue offices for credit to their bank accounts in India.
Public and entities holding such notes were initially asked to either exchange or deposit them in bank accounts by September 30, 2023. The deadline was later extended to October 7, 2023. Deposit and exchange services at bank branches were discontinued on October 7.
Starting October 8, 2023, individuals have been provided with the choice of either exchanging the currency or having the equivalent sum credited to their bank accounts at the 19 offices of the RBI.
The 19 RBI offices depositing/exchanging the bank notes are in Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Belapur, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jammu, Kanpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Patna, and Thiruvananthapuram.
The Rs 2,000 bank notes were introduced in November 2016, following the demonetisation of the then Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 bank notes.