Supreme Court has crushed the hopes of students that will have to appear for offline CBSE Term 2 Board Exams. Students wanted to opt for internal assessment instead of writing offline exams. The petition was filed by Child’s Rights Activist but was dismissed immediately by Supreme Court.
This means that students of CBSE, ICSE and State Boards will have to give exams in offline mode in 2022. Justice AM Khanwilkar said that the petition is ill advised and it will cause false hope among lots of students. He said that authorities of respective boards should be left with the authority to make a decision. The petition was heard by a three bench judge including Justice AM Khanwilkar, CT Ravikumar and Dinesh Maheshwari.
Justice Khanwilkar said, “There’s news item everywhere. What kind of petitions are filed & publicity is being given? This has to stop. This has to stop. Don’t come up again or there will be exemplary costs. Let students & authorities do their job. You can’t PIL like this. Whoever has filed we’re saying for that petitioner.” He said that people should stop using such publicity stunts and gave a warning to such petitioners for future.
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Anubha Shrivastava Sahai was the Child Activist who filed the petition in Supreme Court. She made a request to Supreme Court to cancel all upcoming board exams of CISCE, CBSE, NIOS and State Boards for 2022. Students requested from different regions of India for an Alternate Assessment Criteria. The case was first presented in front of Chief Justice of India, NV Ramana but he referred the case to a three Justice bench of Supreme Court.
National and State Boards including CISCE and CBSE have already issued Board exam dates for 2022. State Boards of Bihar and Madhya Pradesh have already conducted their board exams for 2022. The board exams of Maharashtra State Board will start from March 4, 2022.
