New Delhi: A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court that sought directions to the Centre, Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) to call off the CBSE and ICSE Class XII examinations this year.
It may be recalled that the CBSE, via a letter dated April 14, had cancelled the examination for class X and deferred the examination for class XII. CISCE also via circulars dated April 16 and April 19 had cancelled the examination for class X and deferred the class XII examination for an indefinite period.
The plea urged the top court to set aside the CBSE and CISCE notifications of April 14, 16 and 19 issued only in respect of clauses dealing with the postponement of the examination of Class XII.
Advocate Mamta Sharma filed the petition and asked the court to devise an objective methodology to announce the class XII result within a specific time frame.
The plea stated that for the innocent students of class XII, “step-motherly, arbitrary, inhuman directions” have been issued to defer their final examination for an unspecified duration.
“In view of the unprecedented health emergency and rising numbers of the COVID-19 cases in the country, the conduct of examination, either offline or online or blended in upcoming weeks is not possible and delay in the examination will cause irreparable loss to the students as time is the essence in taking admission in higher education courses in foreign universities,” the plea was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
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