Rajasthan High Court directs CBSE and RBSE to conduct surprise inspections of schools and coaching centres to prevent students from skipping classes. The court warns students disrupting studies may not be allowed in board exams.
The Rajasthan High Court has directed the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and the Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education (RBSE) to take strict measures to ensure that students from classes nine to twelve do not skip school to attend coaching centres.
A division bench, comprising Justice Dinesh Mehta and Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand, instructed both boards to conduct surprise inspections during school hours to monitor whether students are attending classes or going to coaching centres instead.
The court emphasised that school attendance is mandatory and warned that
“any absence without justification would invite disciplinary action against the students, schools, as well as the authorities concerned.”
The bench added,
“The State of Rajasthan and all the boards are directed to constitute Special Investigating Teams (SITs) to carry out sudden and random inspections of all the schools and the coaching centres and in case, the students are found absent in such schools and simultaneously, they found present in the coaching centres during the school hours, then appropriate strict action be taken against all the stakeholders, including the schools and the coaching centres in accordance with law,”
The court further highlighted that students shifting from schools to coaching centres during school hours negatively affects their academic performance.
It warned that students should not be allowed to appear in board examinations if it is found that their studies are being disrupted mid-session.
The matter came before the court after CBSE flagged serious deficiencies in three schools, which had resulted in penalties, including the withdrawal of provisional affiliation. These schools challenged the order in the court.
The bench granted four weeks’ time to the three schools to rectify the deficiencies and mentioned that schools could also seek legal remedies against any adverse decision.
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Additionally, the court directed CBSE and RBSE to form SITs to inspect both schools and coaching centres to ensure compliance and prevent students from missing regular school hours.
This order reinforces the legal responsibility of schools, boards, and coaching centres to ensure students’ regular attendance in schools and curbs the trend of attending coaching classes at the expense of school education.
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