Fix NIOS 10th 12th Exams 2022 centre within 10 Km from accredited institutions: SC

The Bench said most of these students come from low economic backgrounds, inaccessibility to exam centres would cause unimaginable consequences for them. Inability to travel long distances for each examination will result in increase in the number of dropouts.

NIOS 10th, 12th Exams 2022

NIOS 10^th, 12^th Exams 2022: The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) has received directions from the Supreme Court to fix examination centres within a distance of 10 kilometers from the accredited institutions. The orders have been released considering that a substantial number of students come from rural areas to take the open schooling and to enable students to appear in the examination with certainty and ease.

Inaccessibility to exam centres would increase number of dropouts

A vacation bench of Justices S A Nazeer and P S Narasimha released the orders. Stating that most of these students come from low economic backgrounds, inaccessibility to exam centres would cause unimaginable consequences for them. Inability to travel long distances for each examination will result in increase in the number of dropouts.

The top court was hearing a plea filed by a NIOS accredited institution seeking a direction from the NIOS to fix examination centres for open schooling students at a reasonable distance from their study centres, referred to as accredited institutions.

"NIOS shall endeavour to fix the examination centres, within a distance of 10 kilometres from the Accredited Institutions with which they are connected," the bench said. "We have no doubt that the Evaluation Committee, as well as the Competent Authority of NIOS, will bestow their full attention on issues that we have highlighted," it said.

It is NIOS duty to fix examination centres in a manner to enable students to appear in the examination with certainty and ease, the bench said. It further added that it is for NIOS to go an extra mile rather than expecting the students to walk long distances from villages and towns to take the examination, the bench added.

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