n Sitting for Board exams from provincialized schools
Staff Reporter
Guwahati: The Gauhati High Court today ruled that if any student desires to take admission in Class IX in any government school, after necessary verification of his studentship, he would be admitted in such schools where students are permitted to appear in board examination only after attending classes as regular students.
The order was issued by the bench of Chief Justice Ashutosh Kumar and Justice Arun Dev Choudhury while delivering their verdict in an interlocutory application (I.A.(Civil)/1568/2025) filed by Byaktigata Vidyalaya Samannayrakshee Samitee, Guwahati, and another.
Senior Advocate K.N. Choudhury pressed this interlocutory application seeking interim relief to the extent of permitting the students to take admission in government/provincialised schools in Class IX online so that they could appear in the public examinations conducted by the Assam State School Education Board.
On March 28, 2024, the Board of Secondary Education, Assam, came out with a notification informing all the schools concerned affiliated with the board that certain modifications are being effected in regard to the online registration of Class IX students for the year 2024.
Later, a letter was issued on July 4, 2024, by the Director of Secondary Education, Assam, addressed to the Inspector of Schools, intimating him that the unhealthy practice of permitting students of private schools to take admission in government schools for writing examinations conducted by the Board should be stopped, for it was spoiling the academic environment and was also making it difficult for the Board to keep track of or control over the schools in general.
Pursuant to such an instruction, vide order dated April 19, 2025, which has been challenged in the present interlocutory application, the Inspector of Schools prohibited the heads of government and provincialized secondary schools from registering any outside students who are not studying in those government schools.
Senior Advocate for the applicant/petitioner, KN Choudhury, submitted that this instruction, though with a laudatory purpose, would serve no good so far as the students are concerned. It has been the common practice in Assam that students who do not get enrolled in provincialised schools take admission in private schools, but for appearing in and passing the Board Examination, they are admitted in provincialised schools.
Advocate General, Assam, D. Saikia, sought instructions and came out with a proposal that any student desirous of taking admission in Class IX in any provincialised school can do so online, but before appearing in any public examination conducted by the State Board, they shall have to attend classes as regular students.
The court reiterated the concession of the Advocate General of Assam that if any student desires to take admission in Class IX in any government school, then after necessary verification of his studentship, he would be admitted in such school, where only after attending classes as a regular student would he/she be permitted to appear in the examination conducted by the Board.
With this aforenoted observation/clarification, the interlocutory application was disposed of accordingly.
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