Yitachu told PTI that the examination will go ahead as scheduled as postponement of examinations will hamper the career of students.
He appealed to the agitators to allow for peaceful conduct of the examinations.
Asked whether any special arrangements will be made for transportation of students to the examination centres, the minister said the responsibility should be shared by all stakeholders, including the parents and public so that the students can appear in the examinations in a peaceful atmosphere.
The High School Leaving Certificate or the Class X will also start from February 15 and will end on February 27. Some 22,446 students will appear in the examination which will be held in 76 centres across the state.
The tribal organisations demanding Chief Minister T R Zeliang to step down on moral ground have been imposing bandh throughout the state and one of the them the Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) has decided not to exempt those appearing the examination from the purview of indefinite bandh called by it.
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