The plea has been filed by Anubha Shrivastava Sahai, an advocate and child rights activist, along with the Student Union of Odisha-NYCS as the second petitioner. File. The Supreme Court, today, will hear a plea seeking cancellation of offline board examinations for classes 10 and 12 to be conducted by the CBSE and several other boards this year.
A bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar said that an advance copy of the petition is served to the standing counsel for the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and other respondents concerned. The plea was mentioned for urgent listing before the bench, also comprising Justices Dinesh Maheshwari and C T Ravikumar.
The counsel, appearing for petitioner Anubha Shrivastava Sahai, mentioned the matter and requested the bench to list it urgently. The plea has sought directions to the CBSE and other education boards, which have proposed to hold board examinations for classes 10 and 12 in offline mode, for devising other modes of assessment.
The Supreme Court, on Monday, has agreed to list the plea seeking cancellation of offline board exams for classes 10 and 12, which have been scheduled to take place in the next few months by CBSE, ICSE, NIOS, and several other such education boards in states this year.
This plea was mentioned before Chief Justice of India (CJI) NV Ramana by advocate Prashant Padmanabhan. It will now be listed before a bench led by Justice AM Khanwilka.
The CBSE has decided to conduct term two board exams for class 10 and class 12 from April 26.
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