Delhi High Court seeks response from CBSE, Centre on NSUI plea on On-Screen Marking system

The PIL, filed on May 29, seeks the court’s direction to permit manual rechecking and physical verification of answer sheets in cases where students dispute the correctness of the scanned copies or the evaluation process. It also seeks the court’s direction to keep the portal open for verification and re-evaluation of answer sheets for affected students for one month.

Niyazi countered that the portal cannot be kept open “indefinitely” and said that students’ grievances are being addressed.

The NSUI has submitted that “students cannot be made to suffer because of deficiencies in a system introduced by the authorities themselves”.

Citing a decline in pass percentage of Class 12 students, the Congress’ student wing has submitted in its plea that the “significant fall in performance assumes relevance because the present examination cycle was amongst the first large-scale implementations of the On-Screen Marking system and was followed by unprecedented concerns regarding evaluation accuracy, scanned answer books, portal glitches and verification-related grievances raised by students across the country.”

“The said decline, viewed alongside the subsequent events and complaints, raises serious issues warranting examination and independent scrutiny by this Hon’ble Court,” the NSUI has asserted.