AMBALA: The National Independent Schools Alliance (NISA) has opposed the Central Board of Secondary
Education (CBSE) circular to constitute a result committee at schools and raised concern that by doing so, “the
government is exposing lakhs of teachers, and supporting staff to deadly Covid-19.”
NISA has written to the President of India Ram Nath Kovind and sought his intervention, with the subject,
“CBSE exposing lakhs of teachers & other school staff members of thousands of schools all over India to
deadly infection of SARS CoV-2 (Covid-19) against all directions issued under Disaster Management Act,
2005.”
NISA has also filed a writ petition against the CBSE circular in the Delhi High Court, and the court on May 13,
directed NISA, “to file an additional affidavit regarding difficulties faced by teachers in schools in complying
with the order (CBSE circular).” This case is now listed on May 25, 2021.
Similar letters have also been written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the chairperson of the National
Disaster Management Authority and Union minister of women and child development Smriti Zubin Irani.
NISA highlighted that the CBSE on May 1, 2021, issued a circular directing the schools all over the country to
constitute a Result Committee of eight members headed by the principal. NISA said that CBSE asked schools
to open during lockdown calling the teachers/principal including all supporting staff exposing them to Covid-19
to make internal assessment of students for the purpose of declaring results of Class X CBSE board final
examination.
CBSE vide its circular on April 14, 2021 had cancelled the Class X board external examination and later
decided to declare the final result on the basis of internal assessments of marks based upon internal tests and
half yearly examination, etc.
NISA president Kulbhushan Sharma said, “CBSE order also instructs the school management and the
evaluation committee to refer to the last three years of results and internal tests, exams of the particular year.
Though the CBSE has suggested doing an online process to evaluate, and without referring to the hardcopies of
previous years’ data it is not possible to carry out an online process. The managements are thus forced to open
their schools during lockdown asking those teachers and other supporting staff to visit schools exposing them to
deadly infection of SARS CoV-2 against various directions of the Disaster Management Authority and its
various constituent committees.”
Source: Times of India
