The Delhi High court on Monday hearing a plea filed by NSUI has sought responses from the central government and the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in regard to the discrepancies in marking in CBSE examinations conducted through OSM mode.
A Division Bench of Justices Neena Bansal Krishna and Madhu Jain have now listed the matter for June 12.
The counsel for CBSE, advocate MA Niyazi, opposed the plea on grounds of maintainability stating that it has been filed by a political party student wing. “We do not want education to be politicized like this,” he argued.
In response, advocate Mohd. Ali Khan, along with Rishav Ranjan, appeared for the petitioner and submitted that the NSUI is a 55-year-old student organisation, and that students are minors, which is why it is raising the issue.
During the hearing the counsel submitted that the board is addressing the grievances and affected students can write to it.
Petitioner NSUI had filed a plea seeking directions from Delhi High Court award compensatory marks to students whose answer scripts were missing, blurred or incorrectly evaluated. It further pressed for an independent inquiry “into the large-scale irregularities, deficiencies, technical issues and grievance related failures concerning the OSM system” and also asked for manual rechecking and physical verification of answer sheets in cases where students have complained about errors in scanned copies of answer sheets.
It further raised concerns on the fairness, transparency and reliability of a national examination process which directly impacts the future of the students.
Meanwhile, CBSE shared that more than 1.6 lakh candidates successfully submitted requests for re-evaluation of over 3.8 lakh answer books between June 2- June 7.