Covid-19 | Plea in Supreme Court to cancel CBSE Class 12 exams
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It stated college students can’t be made to endure uncertainty in the midst of an unprecedented public well being disaster.
A Special Bench of the Supreme Court will hear a plea on Friday to cancel the (*12*) Board of Secondary Education and Indian Certificate of Secondary Education exams for Class 12 college students due to COVID-19.
A Bench of Justices A.M. Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari is scheduled to hear a petition filed by advocate Mamta Sharma. “Issue a writ of mandamus directing the respondents to cancel the examination for Class 12 and devise an objective methodology to declare the result within a specific time-frame,” Ms. Sharma has urged.
Ms. Sharma stated the CBSE and ICSE notifications deferring the exams to an unspecified date ought to be quashed. It stated college students can’t be made to endure uncertainty in the midst of an unprecedented public well being disaster posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The petition stated there shouldn’t be any uncertainty concerning exams essential to the long run tutorial research of Class 12 college students.
Last yr, the apex courtroom had requested the Boards to decide and declare Class 12 examination outcomes on the idea of their earlier grading. The petitioner stated the identical methodology might be used this yr too. Both Boards can not stay mute spectators and decide to wait and look ahead to the pandemic wave to ebb. Delay would put the way forward for the scholars in peril.
Ms. Sharma stated the Boards had already cancelled the Class 10 exams. The similar ought to be finished for Class 12 college students.
“As far as the innocent students of Class12 are concerned, a step-motherly, arbitrary, inhuman direction has been issued to postpone their final examination for an unspecified duration, instead of following the directions propounded and accepted by them last year,” the petition stated.
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