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It said students cannot be made to suffer uncertainty in the midst of an unprecedented public health crisis.
A Special Bench of the Supreme Court will hear a plea on Friday to cancel the Central Board of Secondary Education and Indian Certificate of Secondary Education exams for Class 12 students due to COVID-19.
A Bench of Justices A.M. Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari is scheduled to hear a petition filed by advocate Mamta Sharma. “Issue a writ of mandamus directing the respondents to cancel the examination for Class 12 and devise an objective methodology to declare the result within a specific time-frame,” Ms. Sharma has urged.
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The Centre will hold a high-level virtual meeting to discuss the school board and professional course entrance examinations on Sunday.
In a tweet, Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal said that he will attend the meeting along with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani and Minister of Information and Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar and Minister of State for Education Sanjay Dhotre.
The government is likely to take a call on the exams at the meeting, which will also be attended by state education ministers and secretaries. The government is also expected to discuss the CBSE’s proposal for conducting board exams.