The Bombay High Court Thursday rapped the state authorities for its determination to cancel Class X board exams final month amid rising Covid-19 circumstances.
A division bench of Justice S J Kathawalla and Justice S P Tavade was listening to a PIL difficult the cancellation of exams introduced on May 12.
Government counsel PP Kakade instructed the court docket {that a} determination shall be taken quickly on a components for admissions in greater training for these college students, awaiting strategies from the State Council of Education, Research and Training (SCERT).
The court docket requested the state authorities if the scholars shall be promoted with out an examination.
“Are you thinking of promoting them without an examination? God save the education system of this country. This is the only main examination and the last one of their schooling,” the court docket stated.
The bench requested if the strategies are awaited from SCERT, which had made the choice to cancel the exams, to which Kakade instructed the High Court that it was a coverage determination.
“In the name of pandemic, we cannot spoil the career and future of our children. This is not acceptable. The framer of our educational policy should know this,” the bench stated.
The court docket additionally questioned why college students from Class XII who shall be made to endure an examination had been being discriminated towards.
Counsels representing CBSE and ICSE stated that they had cancelled Class X exams and give you inside evaluation as they’ve exams until Class IX. The petitioner’s lawyer, Uday Warunjikar, stated that in SSC, there have been no exams until Class VIII and the entire batch would go with none exams if these had been cancelled, too.
The court docket has directed the events to submit on Monday notes on their submissions made on Thursday.