Chennai: In a bid to prevent students, who fail in public examinations, from committing suicide, a public interest litigation has been filed in the Madras high court to direct authorities to handover the results of the public examinations to parents of the students in a parent-teacher meeting and not to publish results directly in newspapers and websites.
The PIL filed by A.Senthil Kumar of Chennai is likely to come up for hearing on Wednesday.
According to petitioner, the results of the public examinations conducted by the government for classes 10, plus-1 and plus-2 were published directly in newspapers and websites enabling students who wrote the examinations to know about their results.
On seeing the results, the students who fail in the examinations were attempting to commit suicide and in few cases the students have died. Therefore, there was a need for an alternative method of announcing the results. If the results were handed over to the parents of the students in a parent-teacher meeting on school premises, the suicide attempts by the candidates, who fail in the examinations, can be prevented, he added.
Referring to various incidents of suicides by students who failed in the examinations or scored less marks, the petitioner said an appropriate counseling has to be given to the students while handing over the results and the parents of the students will also take care of the students.
He had already sent a representation on April 14, 2018, to authorities concerned pointing out his suggestion to save the lives of the students. But there was no response so far. Therefore, he filed the present petition to direct the authorities to consider his representation by taking appropriate action to hand over the results to the parents of the students in a parent-teacher meeting in schools, he added.
