TN exempts private candidates with disabilities from Class 12 exams

Disability rights activists have welcomed the move; candidates who still want to take up the exams can do so

The Tamil Nadu government has exempted private candidates with disabilities from taking up the supplementary class 12 exams, and has declared them ‘all pass.’ A government order passed to this effect said that the Disability Welfare Commissioner in a letter, had said that all school students including those in special schools across the State had been declared as having cleared class 12 following the cancellation of the board exams owing to COVID-19.