NSUI office bearers under leadership of National President Neeraj Kundan conducted a ‘dharna pradarshan’ opposite Ministry of Education demanding cancellation of the 12th board examinations. The NSUI protesters wore PPE kits, followed all the covid protocols during the protest and raised slogans like ‘Pehle Suraksha, Phir Pariksha’. National President Neeraj Kundan in his press statement said, “Since the central government announced its plan to conduct the 12th board exams, NSUI has been demanding to find an alternative of physical examinations. A few days back I wrote a letter to the ministry reminding them that they have not yet come up with any guidelines or policy to ensure safety of the people below the age of 18 and majority of these students are below this age. We specifically warned the government that this could be life threatening to the students appearing for exams. Government has already failed to procure the vaccines and there seems no definite plan for that, and now this lack of planning for the board exams will harm the academic year of these students. The only solution to save their academic year is now to promote them by internal assessments rather than wasting more time on discussing the examinations.”
NSUI has made its stand clear that there could be nothing more important than the lives of these students and the government must find an alternative rather than conducting the examinations. NSUI has been raising the question again and again, that, “If the government is ready to come up with an evaluation formula for other subjects then why can’t they do the same for these 19 subjects as well? Conducting exams for these 19 subjects could be equally dangerous as it would have been for all the subjects.”
NSUI demanded immediate change in the government’s plan to conduct 12th board examinations as it is now creating a state of confusion and depression among the students. The student organisation is against conducting the examinations as, on one hand physical examinations will risk the students’ lives, on the other hand, every student will not be able to access the Internet in case of online examinations.
NSUI National President Neeraj Kundan expressed concern saying, “These are desperate times and desperate times call for desperate measures. There might be students who are already suffering from covid, or the students who might be in trauma of having their family members infected. We don’t know if all such students will be in a condition to appear for the exam at all. We have made it clear since day one, it is important to save the studies of these students but not at the cost of their lives. The government must look for an alternative formula to grade the students as soon as possible. There is also a fear of third wave in India and the government has already failed to procure enough vaccines. It is not fair to expose these students to the danger of being infected when the government has failed to do it’s job. The government can grade them on the basis of their past performances, assignments or classroom assessments etc, but risking the lives of these students is an insensitive decision.”
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