Maharashtra Class 10 board exams marks formula- LATEST UPDATE - Board confirms this

The Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) is yet to devise a formula to evaluate and mark Class 10 students. This was told to the Bombay High Court by the state board during an ongoing hearing on the matter on Monday (May 17).

The Maharashtra state board had earlier postponed the Class 10 board exams, however, had to cancel the same amid the rising cases of coronavirus in the state as well as the country. 

According to the news agency Press Trust of India (PTI), a division bench of Justices S J Kathawalla and S P Tavade was hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by a professor, Dhananjay Kulkarni, challenging the Maharashtra government's April decision cancelling Class 10 exams. 

The petition filed by the professor also challenged similar decisions taken by the ICSE and CBSE boards. 

Each board will have a different marking system which would cause difficulties and hardships to the students while seeking admission to Class 11, Kulkarni's advocate, Uday Warunjikar, argued. 

"The Central government will have to intervene and come out with a uniform policy," he said. 

Representing the union government, Advocate Sandesh Patil told the court, it has some control over the CBSE board but the ICSE and SSC boards being autonomous, Centre has no control over them.  

The state board and ICSE boards can adopt the notification issued by the central government notification on how students should be evaluated and marked, Patil further said.  

Appearing for the SSC board, Advocate Kiran Gandhi told the court that the petition was filed prematurely. 

The SSC board had not devised any formula as yet on how marks would be given to Class 10 students and the board's examination committee will come up with a formula that would be sent to the state government for final approval, Gandhi told the court. 

The bench has directed the SSC board and other respondents (Centre, ICSE board and CBSE board) to file their affidavits in response to the petition, and posted the matter for further hearing on May 19.