SC to hear on Nov 18 plea seeking hybrid option in ensuing board examinations – Deccan Chronicle

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday said it would hear on November 18 a plea seeking directions to the CBSE and the CISCE to issue a revised circular for conducting the ensuing class 10 and 12 board examinations in hybrid mode instead of offline mode only amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The plea, filed by six students who would be appearing in the ensuing board examinations, came up for hearing before a bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and C T Ravikumar. The bench said the plea would be heard along with a pending petition on November 18. Senior advocate Sanjay Hegde, appearing for the petitioners, told the bench that the matter requires urgent consideration as board examinations would commence from Tuesday. The bench, which observed that the pending petition was listed for hearing in January next year, took note of the submissions and said it would prepone the hearing on that plea and both the matters would be taken up this week. When the counsel appearing for the petitioners said the plea pending in the apex court has raised some different issues, the bench said, “We will see that on Thursday (November 18). If the issue is same, it will…
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