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The decision follows a review meeting on Thursday that chief minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy had with education department officials.

Last week, the board had postponed both class 10 and 12 exams.

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 announcements came a day after the central government announced the cancellation of class 10 exams and the postponement of class 12 exams.

NEET-PG 2021 is scheduled on April 18.

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

According to the revised date sheet for CBSE board exams 2021, the Class 10 exams would be held between May 4 and June 7.

Schools across the country were closed in March last year to contain the spread of COVID-19 ahead of a nationwide lockdown.

A new schedule will be announced soon, TSCHE chairman Prof. T Papi Reddy said here on Wednesday.

"Mann ki Baat" is the Prime Minister's monthly radio address to the nation, which is broadcast on the last Sunday of every month.

According to the publishers, the new edition proposes a systematic approach to tackling challenges.

The Prime Minister asked the students to get adequate sleep and be mindful of time management and also not to stop playing.

Throughout the year the students were taught through the state-run Kalvi Tholaikatchi (education TV channel).

The registration for the programme will begin from Thursday and conclude on March 14.

According to the schedule, SSC exams will conclude with the Social Studies paper on May 22.

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.

The Board will conduct practical exams for Class 12th from January 1 till February 8 as per tentative dates.

"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.

The exams will be conducted from 9 am to 12 noon.