A petition has been filed before the Supreme Court to cancel class 12 board exams for both the Central Board of secondary education (CBSE) and the Indian Certificate of secondary education (ICSE) boards.
The plea by Mamta Sharma, a Delhi based lawyer prayed that notifications issued by ICSE and CBSE postponing class XII exams to an unspecified date be struck down.
The petitioner instead urged that the exam be scrapped altogether for this school year and marks be computed using the methodology employed last year.
“Issue a writ of Mandamus directing the respondents to cancel the examination of class XII and devise an objective methodology to declare the results of class 12 board exams within a selected time-frame ,” the petitioner prayed.
In this regard, the plea cited similar case of Amit Bathla v. CBSE which came up before the highest court last year during which the Supreme Court directed the respondents to compute and declare the results of class 12 students on the idea of their earlier grading as their main final exam had been postponed and will not be conducted thanks to unprecedented situation caused by pandemic.
The petitioner, therefore, sought an interim direction to declare the results of class 12 students by applying an equivalent methodology.
Sharma acknowledged that ICSE and CBSE have already accepted the severity of the COVID situation persisting within the country since they cancelled the category 10 board exams.
However, class 12 students are administered arbitrary treatment by merely postponing their exams rather than cancelling an equivalent in sight of the pandemic, she submitted.
“As far because the innocent students of sophistication XII, step motherly, arbitrary, inhuman direction are issued to postpone their final exam for an unspecified duration rather than following the directions propounded and accepted by them last year,” the plea stated.
The plea further stated that in sight of the unprecedented health emergency and rising numbers of Covid -19, the conduct of examination (either offline/online or blended) in upcoming weeks isn’t possibl.
Delay in examination will cause irreparable loss to the scholars as time is that the essence in taking admission in education courses in foreign universities, it had been contended.
Further the petitioner argued that it can’t be legitimately expected from the boards to stay a mute spectator over the present situation and to not take a timely decision in respect of examination and declaration of results of quite 12 lakhs students of class XII.
Source: https://www.barandbench.com/news/plea-supreme-court-cancel-class-12-cbse-icse-exams-covid-19
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