Board Exam 2022 Cancellation Highlights: SC dismisses PIL seeking Alternative Assessment for CBSE, CISCE, NIOS Students

Coming down heavily on the petitioner for filing an ‘ill-advised’ plea, the 3-judge bench of Supreme Court said that moving such premature petitions before the apex court is causing a lot of confusion and chaos among the students. Justice Khanwilkar and Justice Maheshwari said that These petitions create false hopes, let authorities take a decision. You can challenge that order.

Bench: This petition is ill advised, premature. Authorities are yet to take a decision for exam in respective boards. If decisions is not in accordance with rules & Act it will be open to aggrieved persons to set challenge in that regard#SupremeCourt #BoardExams #boardexam2022

— Live Law (@LiveLawIndia) February 23, 2022

NIOS – National Institute of Open Schooling has filed a reply to the petition before the Supreme Court. In its response, NIOS has noted that all arrangements have been made to conduct exams in April in compliance with COVID protocols.

#NIOS #BoardExams2022 #ModijiHelpBoardStudents

NIOS files reply before SC saying all prep for April Exams Completed as per COVID-19 Guidelines pic.twitter.com/MP1aAYXTaE

— Education Reporter (@EducationRepor2) February 23, 2022

As per an update shared by petitioner Adv Anubha Shrivastava Sahai, the matter regarding the Cancellation of the Board Exam has been preponed and is being heard right now.

Infact judges wants to hear it early
Our matter is listed at sr no 6 still they took up our matter first

— Adv Anubha Shrivastava Sahai ð??®ð??³ (@anubha1812) February 23, 2022

Ahead of the big hearing in the Supreme Court over the cancellation of Board Exam 2022, Adv Anubha Shrivastava Sahai shared details of a survey done on the matter seeking the opinion of students on the matter. As per the findings of the survey, of the total 2.15 Lakh respondents, only 7% of students have said that they are okay with offline regular board exams; the rest 93% have sought online exams and internal assessment.

#ModijiHelpBoardStudents2022
As per the survey conducted yesterday night on board exam where 2.15 lakh students took part till now
Only 7% students want offline exam
Rest 93% wants online exam and internal assessment

— Adv Anubha Shrivastava Sahai ???? (@anubha1812) February 23, 2022

The petition challenging the holding of offline board exams for 2022 session has been filed by Advocate Anubha Shrivastava Sahai. Ms Sahai is a lawyer, child rights activist. She also heads the India Wide Parents Association and following sharing of concerns by several groups of parents and students; she has moved the petition before the apex court. 

The hearing regarding cancellation of Board Exams 2022, especially for Central Board’s of CBSE, CISCE and NIOS, comes at a time when CBSE Board Class 10 and Class 12 students are awaiting declaration of Term 1 Results. For 2022 session, CBSE Board decided to hold CBSE 10^th and 12^th Exam 2022 in two terms of which Term 1 Exam was held on Nov – Dec months while Term 2 Exam is scheduled to be held in April. While CBSE Term 1 Exam 2022 has been held, the result for the same has been delayed and is expected to be announced this week. 

With the Board Exam 2022 dates being announced by several state boards, students of over 15 different states and central boards have gathered together to file the petition before apex court seeking alternative assessment mode. These students are demanding a solution similar to last year, when evaluation of their performance was done on the basis of alternative assessment criteria i.e., internal exams and a formula devised by the board.

As per the petition filed before the apex court, the petitioners have sought directions from the Supreme Court to the board demanding alternative assessment mode for 2022 year. As per their argument, for this year, learning was held in online mode which is an alternative technique adopted due to the pandemic. And in the light of this, it would be wrong to hold regular offline exams, when students have not attended classroom based lectures for a major part of the year. 

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The petition challenging holding of offline exams by CBSE, CISCE and other state boards has been filed by Adv Anubha Shrivastava. She sought urgent hearing of the matter by the Apex Court on Monday, following which the case has been lined-up for today and will be heard by a 3-judge bench headed by Justice AM Khanwilkar, who will be joined by Justice Dinesh. Maheswari and Justice CT Ravikumar.

SC hearing on #BoardExams2022 today #ModiJiPleaseHelpBoardStudents #ModijiHelpBoardsStudents2022 #CBSENews https://t.co/INau3ux6Bt

— Education Reporter (@EducationRepor2) February 23, 2022