Sunday, April 1, 2018

PIL filed in SC against CBSE’s decision for re-examination
‘All Students Shouldn’t Be Penalised’

TIMES NEWS NETWORK  01.04.2018

New Delhi: A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the CBSE’s decision to cancel Class XII economics paper and conduct fresh examination on April 25 after the question paper was leaked.

The petitioner, Reepak Kansal, filed the PIL in the SC through advocate Ashutosh Garg, contending that all the students should not be penalised by forcing them to again appear in examination and probe should be carried out to catch the culprits involved in the paper leak.

Another petition by advocate Alakh Alok Srivastava sought CBI inquiry into the paper leak and a compensation of ₹1lakh to each student for the mental agony they suffered due to cancellation of the paper.

“It is to be noted that this year 16.38 lakh students appeared for Class X and 11.8 lakh students for Class XII in the CBSE board examinations. And therefore, to penalise the entire student community for an incident which is under investigation is arbitrary, illegal and unconstitutional. There is absolutely no justification whatsoever on the part of the CBSE in deciding to re-conduct the mathematics examination of Class X and economics of Class XII without holding any inquiry and finding out the persons responsible for such serious and intentional lapse,” the petition said.

“It is submitted that due to inaction/ wrong actions of CBSE officials, fundamental rights of students have been violated, who fall in the category of re-examination, as they would not have proper time and opportunity to appear in their respective competitive examinations and are undergoing mental stress and agony due to actions of CBSE officials. It will naturally affect their performance whereas the students who do not fall in the category of reexamination would have more time and opportunity to prepare and appear in their respective competitive examinations,” the petition said.

The HRD ministry has announced April 25 as the date of re-examination for Class XII economics paper and the government said that the CBSE will take a call in the next 15 days if there was a need to conduct retest for Class X mathematics paper. Preliminary inquiry has revealed the Class X paper leak occurred in Haryana and Delhi-NCR and re-exam might be held only in these two regions. 



UP IN ARMS: Students protest in front of the CBSE regional office in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday

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