Hand over public exam results to parents: Madras HC notice to education secretary

Chennai: The Madras high court ordered notice to the school education secretary and director of school education on a public interest litigation, which sought a direction to the authorities to hand over the results of the public examinations to the parents of students in a parent-teacher meeting and not to publish the results directly in newspapers and websites, so as to prevent students who fail in the examinations from committing suicide.

A division bench comprising Justices V.Parthiban and P.D.Audikesavalu posted further hearing of the PIL filed by A.Senthil Kumar of Chennai after four weeks. According to Senthil Kumar, the results of the public examinations conducted by government for the 10th, 11th and 12th standards were published directly in newspapers and websites, enabling students who wrote the examinations to know about their results.

Some students who fail in the examinations attempt suicide and in few cases, students have died. Therefore, there is need for an alternative method of announcing the results. If the results are handed over to the parents of students in a parent-teacher meeting in the school premises, suicide attempts by candidates who fail in the examinations, can be prevented, he added.

The petitioner said that he had already sent a representation on April 14, 2018 in this regard to the authorities concerned, but there was no response so far. Therefore, he filed the present, he added.