The Calcutta High Court on Friday announced that the results for the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), which provides training to the in-service teachers and grant them Diploma on Elementary Education after they pass in the examination. will not be published in West Bengal before March 29, 2019.
This decision was taken due to the cancellation of the examination which was to be conducted in December 2018 owing to the information released by the Additional Solicitor General Kaushik Chanda for the leak of question papers before the examination. The canceled examination will be re-conducted on February 3.
The NIOS has scheduled the re-conduction of exams for two subjects namely Understanding Children in Inclusive Context and Community and Elementary Education.
Due to this, a candidate petitioned at the high court, for being prejudiced even after writing the exam in a fair manner, which was conducted on December 20 and December 21, the papers were canceled on December 26 by the NIOS due to the leak of question papers.
The petitioner’s Lawyer Firdous Shamim submitted before Justice Chatterjee that the exam has been canceled only in West Bengal, he also requested for an investigation to be conducted by the CBI in order to find the loophole which led to this mishappening, jeopardizing every other candidate who was not involved.