Due to the freezing cold weather, students of Humla are compelled to take the mid-term examinations on open grounds.
As it is extremely difficult to stay inside classrooms due to the cold temperature, schools are conducting examinations out in the open ground under the sun.
Pradeep Jaisi, a ninth-grade student in Dharmodaya Secondary School of Tajakot Rural Municipality, said, “It is not possible to stay inside the classroom in this weather as our hands become numb which makes it difficult to write.
“During the winters, there is no alternative other than taking the examination under the sky,” he said.
Another student of the same school Ramita Khadka said that it became easier for her to write after she shifted to the ground from the examination hall.
The school managed to conduct examinations in open after all the examinees complained about the difficulty to write.
Jaya Rudra Dhakal, teacher at Dharmodaya School, said, “We decided to conduct the exams under the sky as the students couldn’t move their hands due to cold inside the classrooms.”
Dhakal said that it was not a choice, rather a compulsion of the school to hold examinations under the sky.
The temperature has dipped in Humla this year and students taking classes and examinations out in the open has now been an ordinary sight.
Source : TRN,
