'Board Exam Cancellation’: Supreme Court To Hear Plea Today

'Cancel Class 12 Board Exam 2021’: The Supreme Court of India will hear the plea, filed by Advocate Mamta Sharma, seeking cancellation of the CBSE Class 12 Board exam 2021 today.

The Supreme Court of India will hear the plea, filed by Advocate Mamta Sharma, seeking cancellation of the CBSE Class 12 Board exam 2021 today. A petition has been filed before the Supreme Court to cancel Class 12 board exams for both Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) boards. A Bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari is scheduled to hear a petition. In the plea, the Advocate has requested the top court to direct the national exam conducting authorities to declare the Class 12 result on the basis of ‘objective methodology’ within the specific time frame. Meanwhile, the hashtag "#cancelboardexams" and #Modijisave12thstudents continues to trend on Twitter, Raising concern over the safety of lakhs of students, the plea said that they might be exposed to COVID-19 infection if they have to appear in the examinations amid the increasing number of coronavirus cases.