The Bombay High Court on Thursday got here down closely on the Maharashtra authorities over the cancellation of the Class 10 examination, saying it was making a mockery of the training system. A division bench of Justices S J Kathawalla and SP Tavade sought a reply as to why the choice to cancel the state board examination shouldn’t be put aside.
The bench was listening to a Public Interest Litigation filed by Dhananjay Kulkarni, difficult the federal government’s choice in April to cancel the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination of Class 10 because of a surge in COVID-19 circumstances.
Government pleader P B Kakade stated the federal government is but to plot a components to guage college students (within the absence of the examination), and a call will probably be taken in two weeks.
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“You are making a mockery of the education system,” Justice Kathwalla stated.
“Are you thinking of promoting the students without exams? If yes, then God save the education system of this state. This is the last year of schooling. Tenth standard is an important year and hence the exam is also important,” the court docket stated
The authorities cannot spoil college students’ profession and future within the title of pandemic, it stated.
“This is not acceptable at all. You are destroying the system,” Justice Kathawalla stated.
The excessive court docket famous that COVID-19 circumstances in Mumbai and the remainder of Maharashtra had been lowering, and in addition requested why the federal government determined to cancel the Class 10 examination however not that for Class 12.
“Why this discrimination? It seems things are being done at the whims and fancies of so-called policy makers,” the court docket stated.
“Students, who are the future of our country and state, cannot be promoted year after year without giving exams. We are only concerned about this,” the HC stated.
In on-line, a number of selection exams, college students who rating 40 per cent additionally handle to get 90 per cent and therefore it was not the proper option to assess them, the court docket stated.
The bench directed the state authorities to file an affidavit explaining why the court docket mustn’t put aside the choice to cancel the SSC examination, and posted the matter for additional listening to subsequent week.