Chandigarh power crisis: Students fail to take their online tests, attend classes

The first day of the strike by the power staff brought online education of a lot of students in the city to a halt. While many were not able to attend classes and appear for class tests, those were able to do so with the help of inverters are worried about what will happen tomorrow.

Some schools had to postpone their online exams scheduled for today in view of power outages in the entire city. District Education Officer Prabhjot Kaur said, “We have unit tests going on in our schools, which are in the offline mode. The physical attendance was satisfactory in schools but online classes suffered as students whose digital devices were not charged, could not attend the classes.”