Just a day prior to the commencement of the State Board Class 10 exams, the Mumbai divisional board, (comprising of Thane, Raigad and Palghar) was busy processing applications submitted at the last minute. These applications were of students requesting for special concessions. On Monday, March 2, close to 200 fresh exam registrations were processed.
Approximately 1.85 students who have opted for first languages other than English will appear for their paper today. A total of 3.91 students have been registered under the Mumbai division. A day before the exams, the divisional board office in Vashi was swarmed with long queues of students. Many of the students had come as they had suffered injuries in recent accidents and wanted to apply for last-minute concessions.
“We help students get concessions if they have all the requisite documents and if the case is found to be genuine. Our goal is to ensure not a single child is deprived of his/her rights,” Sandeep Sangave, secretary of the Mumbai divisional board told HT.
According to the HT report, close to 20 students arrived at the divisional board office on Monday with fractures in their right hand for concessions. A student had to spend his entire day at the office since on his medical certificate, the doctor had written “head” instead of “hand”.
On the other hand, some schools had sent some last-minute registration requests for private candidates as they could not apply due to “unforeseen circumstances”. In case you didn't know, the deadline for exam registration was August 30, 2019, for regular students and November 15, 2019, for private candidates.
Now the board allows the students to fill forms in case they miss deadlines. However, the defaulters have to pay late fees amounting to ₹ 200 for each day past the deadline. According to the officials, the registration fees for those applying a day or two before the exams may go up to ₹9,000.
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