Hundreds of students have moved the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the CBSE to cancel Class XII private\/compartment examinations in physical mode and urged for adoption of a performance evaluation formula similar to the CBSE assessment formula for the regular students. The results should be released in a time-bound manner, said the plea by the 1152 students.<\/p>\n
The plea filed through advocate Abhishek Choudhary said: “Owing to the prevailing Covid-19 situation in the country, it cannot be conclusively said, as to when exactly we will be able to have such conducive environment necessary for the conduct of physical mode examinations.”<\/p>\n
The top court had already accepted the formula proposed by the CBSE and ICSE for evaluating students after cancellation of Class XII examinations.<\/p>\n
The petitioner contended that the decision to conduct private\/ compartment\/repeaters examination of Class XII CBSE Board candidates would endanger the life of lakhs of students. The plea argued that if candidates were forced to appear in a physical mode board examination, it would violate their ‘right to life and health’ as guaranteed by Article 21 of the Constitution. The students filed the intervention application in a pending case in connection with the CBSE’s board examination.<\/p>\n
The top court is likely to take up their plea tomorrow.<\/p>\n
The applicants submitted, “if their examinations are delayed beyond reasonable time till a conducive environment is achieved in order to conduct the examination, they will not only lose opportunity to apply and seek admission in these Universities\/ Colleges, but they will also be denied their fundamental right to education.”<\/p>\n