NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a plea seeking cancellation of offline exams for Class 10 and 12 to be conducted by all state boards, CBSE, ICSE and National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS).
Rejecting the appeal, the bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar observed that such petition creates “false hope” and “confusion” all over.
“This creates not only false hopes, it creates confusion all over to students who are preparing,” said the bench, also comprising Justices Dinesh Maheshwari and C T Ravikumar.
The plea, filed by Anubha Shrivastava Sahai, an advocate and child rights activist, along with the Student Union of Odisha-NYCS, had sought directions to the CBSE and other education boards, which have proposed to hold board examinations for classes 10 and 12 in offline mode, to devise alternate modes of assessment.
Shrivastava Sahai expressed displeasure over the verdict passed by the Supreme Court and said that due to this verdict “these students, too, will suffer like students of last two years batches.”
