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The governments efforts to salvage the best-five admission formula will be backed up by affidavits and intervening affidavits in the Supreme Court from the state board,the Shiv Sena and possibly the parents of state board students,for whom the formula had been drafted.
Under the formula,of any SSC students six subject scores,only the best five would count during admission to Class XI. The High Court struck it down after parents of ICSE and CBSE students appealed.
The government is yet to decide on the panel of lawyers to represent its case in the Supreme Court,but officials are clear about the main contention: that the government should be allowed to decide its education system.
We want to know if the government has any right to introduce policy changes in its own education board. It was wrong of the High Court to completely quash the decision. Instead,they could have directed the ICSE to follow the best-5 system, said an official.
The state board will file a separate affidavit and try to get the case heard on the first day after the court resumes after the vacation. The admission process will be delayed a bit but we will try to fill in the college days by reducing Diwali,Christmas vacations and other holidays, a board official said.
The Parents-Teachers Association United Forum,too,is contemplating going to the Supreme Court and are consulting legal opinion. There are 16 lakh students in a dilemma. Students who scored high would lose ranks and marks if all six subjects are counted, said forum president Arundhati Chavan,adding the forums case would highlight the depression of students.
We dont particularly support best-five and want the government to come up with concrete plans for the next academic year. But as of now the Supreme Court should allow the state to continue with the new policy.
On the political front,after MNS chief Raj Thackeray met Chief Minister Ashok Chavan to demand that the mess be sorted out,the Shiv Sena went one step ahead,with executive president Uddhav Thackeray announcing his party would file an intervening affidavit.
I will soon go to Delhi personally for the affidavit. Students are under a lot of pressure after the High Court decision and our affidavit will be for their benefit, said Thackerays son Aditya.
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