CBSE Board Exam 2022: Advocate Prashant Padmanabhan mentioned the petition for urgent hearing before a bench headed by Chief Justice NV Ramana. He said that the matter is of 10th and 12th examination. “The physical classes cannot be held due to the pandemic,” he said.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to immediately list a petition seeking cancellation of the physical (offline) examinations of class 10th and 12th to be conducted by all state boards, CBSE, ICSE and NIOS. Advocate Prashant Padmanabhan mentioned the petition for urgent hearing before a bench headed by Chief Justice NV Ramana. He said that the matter is of 10th and 12th examination. “The physical classes cannot be held due to the pandemic,” he said.
After hearing brief submissions, the CJI said: “Let the matter be taken up before the bench of Justice AM Khanwilkar.” Justice Khanwilkar had earlier heard petitions regarding board examinations last year. The petition states that several students studying in CBSE, ICSE, NIOS and state boards approached the petitioner Anubha Srivastava Sahay for the issues they are facing with regard to the board examination and the outcome of this PIL. are directly affected.
The petition’ other petitioners are students as well as parents from different states, who were aggrieved by the board’s decision. The mental pressure that is created to perform in this examination is so much that every year many students commit suicide out of fear. “It would be not only unfair, but absolutely inhumane, for the students to appear and face the examination with the added fear of getting infected with the COVID-19 virus,” the petition said.
What is the claim of the petitioner
The petitioners argued that their claim was genuine and it was necessary to protect their fundamental right to education under Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution. The petition urged the apex court to issue a direction to the concerned authorities to pass a notification regarding alternate mode of evaluation of class 10, 11, 12 students of CBSE, ICSE, NIOS and state boards instead of offline examination. Was.
The plea also prayed to the court to direct the conduct of a correction test for those and constitute a committee to decide the formula for evaluation of students, including compartment students, and to declare the results within a time limit. done. The second petitioner in the petition is the student union Odisha. The petition also includes a list of students from different parts of the country who had approached Sahay regarding board exam issues.
