new delhi the cbse on wednesday told the supreme court that it will very shortly take appropriate decision on the issue raised in a plea which has sought quashing of the notification for conducting remaining examinations of class xii from july 1 to july 15 amid the increase in number of covid19 cases across the country the counsel appearing for the central board of secondary education cbse requested a bench headed by justice a m khanwilkar which heard the matter through videoconferencing for a short adjournment so that he could apprise the apex court about the decision on the issue during the course of argument rupesh kumar counsel appearing for central board of school education informed the court that central board of school education is in the process of taking appropriate decision with regard to the subject matter of this petition very shortly the bench also comprising justices dinesh maheshwari and sanjiv khanna noted in its order the top court was hearing a plea filed by some parents of students who are appearing in class xii examination which has sought a direction to cbse to declare the results on the basis of exam already conducted and to calculate it on an average basis with internal assessment marks of remaining subjects the bench while taking into account the submissions of the boards counsel posted the matter for hearing on june 23 raising concern over the safety of lakhs of students the plea has said that they might be exposed to covid19 infection if they have to appear in the examinations amid the increase in number of cases of virus infection it has urged the apex court to quash the may 18 notification of the cbse by which the date sheet for remaining exams of class xii was declared and also to stay it till the plea is decided by the court the said petition would also demonstrate the extent of discriminatory and arbitrariness conduct of the respondentcbse in issuing the notification for holding of the remaining examination and that too in the month of july 2020 wherein as per the aiims data the said covid19 pandemic would be at its peak the plea has said it has alleged that considering the gravity of covid19 pandemic the cbse has cancelled the examinations of class x and xii for its around 250 schools which are situated abroad and has adopted the criteria of awarding marks on the basis of either practical exams conducted or the internal assessment marks it is highly regretful that the respondents cbse and ministry of human resource development herein have no genuine concern about putting the lives at peril of all the students pan india and have no explanation whatsoever in insisting upon holding the said examination in india the plea claimed it said that in april this year the cbse had directed the schools to promote students of classes ix and xi to the respective next grades on the basis of school based assessments it aslo said that