The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation in opposition to the state authorities’s determination to carry in-person examination for Class 10 and 12 board repeaters and personal college students in view of the coronavirus pandemic.
“We are here not to lower the standards of education, but we want the standards to improve. So repeaters and private students, let them appear in examinations, let them study and let them pass the examination,” stated Chief Justice Vikram Nath.
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The sooner the examinations are held, the higher it is going to be for college kids as they’ll get entry to faculties earlier than the seats are taken, stated a division bench of Chief Justice Nath and Justice Biren Vaishnav.
The state authorities instructed the court docket that it has made elaborate preparations for holding the examinations.
As many as 2,916 college buildings have been designated for the examinations that can begin from July 15, authorities pleader Manisha Lav Kumar instructed the court docket.
“Very few students will appear for all the subjects, and fortunately we are in the best situation as far as pandemic is concerned where the positivity rate is (currently) very low,” she stated.
Petitioner Naresh Shah, who heads an affiliation of guardians of college college students, contended that the choice by the Gujarat State Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB) to conduct bodily examinations for repeater (these showing for examination a second time) places them on the threat of contracting coronavirus.
For common college students of Class 10 and 12, the Board has determined to grant mass promotion in view of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the identical concession must be supplied to those college students too, the petition demanded. Instead of in-person exams, goal or on-line examinations may be held, the petition proposed.