Supreme Court junks plea on hybrid mode option for exams

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, November 18

The Supreme Court on Thursday turned down a petition seeking directions to the CBSE and the CISCE to provide the option of hybrid mode, instead of the offline mode alone, for the classes 10 and 12 board examinations.

Don’t mess up with system: Bench

Don’t mess up with the education system. Let the authorities continue to do their job.

A Bench led by Justice AM Khanwilkar said such a direction at this stage would not be appropriate and would disturb the ongoing process.

The term one board exams of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) have already commenced from November 16 while the semester one board examinations of the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) were scheduled to begin on November 22, it noted.

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the CBSE, told the Bench that all precautions had been taken for conducting the board examinations in the offline mode and the examination centres had been increased from 6,500 to 15,000.

The Bench said it “hopes and trusts” that the authorities would take all precautions and measures to ensure that no one got exposed to anything untoward in the examination process.

Six students, appearing in the board examinations, had moved the top court seeking directions to the CBSE and the CISCE to issue a revised circular for conducting the board exams in hybrid mode in view of Covid-19.

The petition claimed, “The offline exam was “fraught with bad planning.”