Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Mar 28: State minister for primary and secondary education, Suresh Kumar, has written to the headmasters of high schools and teachers, requesting them to remain personally in touch with every student who will be appearing for the SSLC examination this year, and to instil in them a sense of confidence by extending emotional support.

"But for the fact that coronavirus pandemic raised its ugly head, the SSLC examinations would have begun on March 27. I have observed that 8.5 lac students were eagerly waiting to face the examination with confidence. Now, coronavirus has compelled postponement of this examination. The entire society is now faced with the challenge of first winning over the challenge posed by this disease," Kumar said in his letter.

Suresh Kumar

"Your children are waiting to appear for SSLC examination. At this tricky hour, it is very important for us to remain personally in touch with the students and to reinforce emotional strength and buoyancy in them. You must be having contact numbers of your students. Please contact individual students over phone from today onward, provide them guidance as they might need, and fortify their courage and confidence," he has requested. He told the teachers to invoke a sense of faith and determination among the students to defect the complex situation created by coronavirus and then face the examinations in the coming days with confidence and determination.

"If you take my pleas in the right perspective and follow it as a campaign and take my suggestions, it will result in giving a positive message to the society at this time of need by all of us. I am sure that you will respond to my request positively," he said in his letter.