The Tamil Nadu High and Higher Secondary School Graduate Teachers Association had approached the court seeking to prevent the state government from conducting the Class X Board Exams, which is scheduled to start from 15th June. It was also stated that there were over 12,000 examination centers for Class X exams, thus indicating the manpower required amid the prevailing scenario where Tamil Nadu has seen 31,667 total COVID-19 cases, of which 14,396 are active. The bench also lashed out at the state government, highlighting that conducting the lass X exams was unlike the re-opening of the TASMAC (state-run liquor outlets) during the lockdown. “Can the state government give an undertaking that no student will get infected by COVID-19 if it is allowed to conduct the 10th-grade board exams from June 15th?” the bench questioned. Stating that it is well and good if the Tamil Nadu government itself postpones the exams without letting the Damocles Sword hanging over the students' heads till the eleventh hour.

Source: dna June 08, 2020 10:18 UTC