SC To Hear Plea Seeking Cancellation Of CBSE's Compartment Exams Tomorrow

The plea has been filed on behalf of around 2,10,000 students who were placed in the compartment category, after CBSE declared the result for the said classes, based on an alternate evaluation method, in July this year.

The primary contention raised by the Petitioners is that it shall be impossible for CBSE to safely conduct the compartment examination amid the pandemic. They have also argued that since the compartment exams were not conducted in July, students have been unable to take admissions in Universities.

They have therefore sought a direction upon the CBSE to cancel the compartment exam and have prayed the Court to set aside its notifications dated August 6 and August 12, mandating compartment examination.

A similar plea was earlier filed before the Supreme Court which came to be dismissed with a direction to challenge the notification dated August 6, 2020, separately.

[Compartment Exams] SC Dismisses Plea Seeking Cancellation Of Compartment Exam

"A substantive petition needs to be filed to assail the August 6 CBSE representation. The CBSE has already given its reasons. You please file the Notification. We'll give you the liberty to do so," Justice Khanwilkar had said while dismissing the pela on August 20.

Accordingly, the Petitioners have filed a fresh plea, challenging the CBSE notifications. They have pointed out that the Board denied their request to cancel the compartment exams, giving a 'vague reason' that if compartment examination is cancelled then future of the 'other' 10th and 12th board examination students shall be affected.

"However it is submitted that CBSE did not clarify that how the students who does not belong to the compartment category will be affected if the compartment exam is cancelled," the plea states.

Notably, 150198 students from class X and 87651 students from class XII have been placed within the compartment category.

The plea urges the court to issue directions to CBSE to come up with a plan which shall ensure that neither the students are forced to appear in the compartment examination during the peak of COVID 19 nor students be forced to waste a whole year due to compartment in a single examination.

It is pointed out that the CBSE cancelled Board exams in March this year and the same benefit should be extended to the present Petitioners.

Advocate, Shakti Pandey will be appearing for the Petitioners (compartment students)