Board Exams 2021: Should CBSE/CISCE/Other Boards Scrap Class 12 Board Exams? Advocate Mamata Sharma Answers

Advocate Mamata Sharma is representing the students seeking cancellation of Class 12 Board Exams, in view of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic in the country, in the Supreme Court.

New Delhi: Amid the growing clamour to cancel Board Exams 2021, the Supreme Court on Friday said it would hear on May 31 a plea seeking directions to cancel the class 12 exams of the CBSE and Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) amidst the surge in COVID-19 cases across the country. “Be optimistic. May be by Monday (May 31), some resolution will be there,” a bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari told the petitioner. Justice Maheshwari observed that the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is likely to take a call on the issue on June 1.

The plea, filed by petitioner Mamta Sharma, has also sought directions to devise an “objective methodology” to declare the result of Class 12 Board Exams within a specific time frame. At the outset, the bench asked Sharma whether she has served the copy of the plea to the advocate representing the CBSE. When the petitioner said she will serve the copy of the plea to the parties, the bench observed, You do it. We will have it on Monday (May 31) . We permit the petitioner-in-person to serve advance copy on the standing counsel for the respondent(s), namely, central agency, CBSE, ICSE and also the office of the Attorney General for India, the bench said in its order, adding, List this matter on Monday, i.e. May 31, 2021 at 11 AM. The petition has arrayed the Centre, the CBSE and the CISCE as respondents in the matter.

Today, India.com had a chat with Advocate Mamata Sharma regarding the whole situation and she answered some of our questions related to the holding of Class 12 Board exams. Watch the exclusive interview here:

Should CBSE/CISCE/ Other Boards Put Safety of Students First And Scrap Class 12 Board Exams? EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Of @AdvMamtaSharma With @HimaanshuS & @ToshiTiwari96 https://t.co/PfBR1B8WcQ

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When India.com editor-in-chief Himanshu Shekhar asked Ms Sharma how hopeful she is that students’ demands will be met on May 31, she said that she is 100% positive that the voice of students will be heard since it’s unimaginable to conduct offline exams in the present situation. She said in times when even the Supreme Court is hearing cases virtually, it’s not at all logical to conduct exams in offline mode.