Even as uncertainty over when the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will declare Class XII results prevails, Union Education Minister Prakash Javadekar on Thursday said that the results will be declared on time. “CBSE result will be declared on time, the date will be told by CBSE. No need to worry about court's order, justice will be done for all,” Javadekar said.
His statement comes a day after reports surfaced that the board is likely to challenge the Delhi High Court order that asked the board to continue its moderation policy, which was scrapped last month. According to sources in the government, the board will file a special leave petition in the Supreme Court justifying its decision to scrap the moderation policy.
The Class XII results were declared on 28 May last year, but the continuing back and forth over the board’s moderation policy has delayed the results this year. If, however, the board goes ahead and challenges the high court order, wouldn’t it delay the results further?
While this questions remains, a Mint report quoted a board official as saying that the results are likely to be announced by the weekend and that the board “cannot delay it further”.
Students Caught Between Decisions by the Board and the Court
In a report on 6 June 2016, CBSE’s lies about having a fair system of moderating marks were exposed. Conclusive data analysis of CBSE results over the past decade showed that the board was inflating students’ marks unequally – that is, marks of different students were being raised by different amounts.
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On 24 April 2017, CBSE and 31 other school boards agreed to do away with this practice of bumping up or spiking students’ marks to show higher scoring results.
After the board’s decision, a petition in the Delhi High Court, filed by Rakesh Kumar and advocate Ashish Vermahish Verma, argued that states like Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh have decided to implement the new ‘no moderation’ policy only from 2018, and hence the students from these states would fare better than those from Delhi and other states.
Responding to the petition, a bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Pratibha M Singh called CBSE’s decision to implement its new policy for the 2017 results “unfair and irresponsible”. It ordered CBSE to go ahead with moderation of marks of students this year.
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