The Supreme Court (SC) has directed the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) to repair the examination centres inside a distance of 10 kilometres (kms) from the accredited establishments to allow college students to look within the examination with certainty and ease.
A trip bench of Justices S A Nazeer and P S Narasimha mentioned {that a} substantial variety of college students resorting to open education invariably come from rural areas.
“Inability to travel long distances for each examination will only have the consequence of the student dropping out, which is the biggest challenge the country is facing today. It is interesting to note that the New Education Policy, 2020, in chapter six records the beneficial effect of reducing the burden of distance to prevent dropping out from schools through group walks, provision of cycles, among others for the socially and educationally disadvantaged groups,” the bench mentioned.
“Most of those college students come from poor strata of the society, depend upon unreliable public transport and possibly are employed for his or her livelihood. It just isn’t troublesome to think about the implications of inaccessible examination centres for such college students. There is yet one more issue. The major, secondary, or senior secondary examinations invariably contain answering a number of papers unfold over a time frame.
The apex courtroom mentioned an obligation is solid upon the NIOS to repair examination centres in a fashion to allow college students to look within the examination with certainty and ease. The bench mentioned it’s for NIOS to go an additional mile quite than anticipating the scholars to stroll lengthy distances from villages and cities to take the examination.
“NIOS must have the freedom to identify, accept or reject an application offering to be an examination centre. While exercising that right, NIOS will also keep in mind its duty to provide accessibility of educational certification by enabling students to reach the examination centres,” the bench added.
The high courtroom mentioned that whereas fixing the examination centres, NIOS must be at liberty to consider the credibility of the establishment providing to be an examination centre and such different elements as are mandatory to make sure integrity of the examination together with legislation and order.
With inputs from PTI.
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