"Step Motherly, Arbitrary And Inhuman": Plea In Supreme Court Seeks Cancellation of CBSE, ICSE Class XII Exams
Live LawA plea has been filed before the Supreme Court seeking directions to cancel the examination of Class XII and devise an objective methodology to declare the result of class XII within a specific timeframe. The plea has also sought directions for setting aside the Notification dated 14th,16th and 19th April 2021 issued by CBSE and Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination only in respect of clauses dealing with postponement of Class XII examination CBSE through its letter dated 14th April had cancelled the examination for class X and postponed the examination for class XII. The Apex Court through that judgement, had directed the computation and declaration ofthe result of class XII students on the basis of their earlier grading as their main final examination had been postponed and could not be conducted due to unprecedented situation caused by pandemic. The plea has stated that CICSE/ CBSE had already through their circulars dated 26th June and 13th July 2020 accepted and admitted the same severe situation of covid 19 and has partly accepted the judgment of Supreme Court passed last year for this present year academic session of 2020-2021 in respect of class X students by : Issuing the directions not to conduct their fresh final examination Adopting the criteria of declaring result on the basis of their earlier internal grading However, the plea has stated that for the innocent students of class XII, "step motherly arbitrary, inhuman direction" have been issued to postpone their final examination for an unspecified duration instead of following the directions propounded and accepted by them last year.