According to the board, India will follow the non-examination route for the diploma programme, the career-related programme and the alternative task for the middle years programme.
The Central Board of Secondary Education can explore other methods, including online exams and promoting students on the basis of internal assessments, he said.
She said with over one lakh cases of COVID-19 being reported across the country, lakhs of children and parents have expressed fear and apprehension about assembling at exam centres
The Education Minister has already clarified that there will be no change in the syllabus for medical entrance exam NEET or engineering entrance exam JEE-Main next year.
"Students who do not study in English medium or those who are not from Hindi speaking States face serious disadvantage in these competitive examinations," he said.