From Our Bureau
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has fixed a hearing on Monday on the offline exams of classes X and XII on a plea to order an alternate mode of assessment.
The petition is filed by the students of 15 states through child rights activist and advocate Anubha Shrivastava Sahai , also seeking relief for conducting an improvement exam for those students who are not satisfied with the internal assessment.
The respondents made include the state boards, Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE), National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS).
The petition states that the boards have been mum over the ongoing Covid-19 situation and not taken a thoughtful decision regarding the board examinations and declaration of Class 10, 12 results. While some state boards like Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh have already released board exams schedules, others are still discussing the ways forward, says the petitioners.
“The students are dissatisfied by this kind of behaviour of the State government and other boards. They are stressed and worried about their future and career,” the plea argued, urging formation of a committee to decide the formula of assessment of Class X, XII students, including compartment exams and declaration of results on time.
“Students in all the States are very worried about conducting the 10th and 12th board examination due to high rate of growth of COVID-19 cases in all over Country along with the high possibility of 3rd wave which will affect the students very badly, and also due to incompletion of course in this pandemic situation,” the petition further said.
