Covid- 19: CBSE asks invigilators to use face masks, have adequate distance between students

“The exam invigilators should wear masks or cover face with handkerchiefs during exams,” CBSE Controller of Exams Sanyam Bhardwaj said in an advisory.

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has directed board examination centres to ensure sitting arrangement with adequate distance between students to contain the coronavirus spread.

A girl is seen wearing a protective mask as students of class 10th arrive to appear for their CBSE exam, at an examination centre, Sector 10, in Gurugram, India, on Wednesday. (Yogendra Kumar/HT PHOTO)

“It shall be responsibility of examination centres to ensure that candidates for board exams are seated at distance of one metre from one another. For wherever the size of room doesn’t permit that, the examinees can be split into other rooms.

“The exam invigilators should wear masks or cover face with handkerchiefs during exams,” CBSE Controller of Exams Sanyam Bhardwaj said in an advisory.

Coronavirus scare has led shutting down of schools in most of the states with the exception of board examinees.