Students throughout the first day of the board exams at Government Model High School in Bengaluru.
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The State authorities on Tuesday claimed before the High Court of Karnataka that litigating associations of sure non-public unaided faculties are opposing the board exams for classes 5, 8, 9, and 11 owing to “vested interests” as a lot of their member-schools don’t educate classes from the State government-prescribed textbooks.
The associations are opposing the proposed uniform evaluation as college students, finding out in sure faculties run by the members of petitioners’ associations, aren’t able to reply questions based mostly on the prescribed textbooks, it was argued on behalf of the federal government.
No opposition from college students, mother and father
Also, the federal government claimed that no scholar or mother or father from any college had challenged the uniform evaluation methodology proposed by the federal government for these classes by way of the Karnataka State Examination and Assessment Board (KSEAB) as the brand new evaluation is of their curiosity.
Submissions on this regard had been made before a Division Bench comprising Justice Okay. Somashekar and Justice Rajesh Rai Okay. throughout the listening to of the attraction filed by the federal government.
The attraction was filed towards the March 6, 2024, judgement of a single choose, who had quashed the notification issued for conducting board exams by way of KSEAB. The single choose had held that such a serious change in examination sample couldn’t have been launched with out framing guidelines as per the statutes. However, the Division Bench on March 7 stayed the one choose’s order and allowed the federal government to maintain exams from March 11 by passing an interim order.
What SC stated
But the Supreme Court on Tuesday put aside the Division Bench’s interim order and requested it to hear the federal government’s attraction on the benefit. The apex court docket had stated that the Division Bench couldn’t have allowed the exams by an interim order, as in two completely different verdicts in 2023 and 2024 single judges of the High Court have had declared as unlawful the federal government’s motion of introducing board examination with out framing the principles.
The Registered Unaided Private Schools’ Management Association-Karnataka, Bengaluru and the Organisation for Unaided Recognised Schools, Bengaluru had questioned the federal government’s October 2023 notifications for conducting uniform evaluation for classes 5, 8, and 9 and annual exams for class 11 (first yr pre-university) by way of the KSEAB. The single choose had allowed their petitions.
The Bench adjourned additional listening to on the attraction until March 14.