IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE SIXTEENTH DAY OF APRIL TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO WRIT PETITION NO : 5904 of 2008 Between: 1. Vattikota Sai Kumar S/o. V. Kotaiah, being minor re. by father and natural guardian V. Kotaiah, bangarigadda, Choutuppal, Nalgonda District and others. ..... PETITIONERS AND 1 The Commissioner and Director of Government Exams, Board of Secondary Education, Chapel Road, Hyderabad. 2 Assistant Commissioner of Government Exams, Office of District Education Officer, Nalgonda. 3 Regional Joint Director of School Education, Nalgonda. 4 District Education Officer, Nalgonda. .....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Affidavit filed herein the High Court will be pleased to issue a writ, order or direction preferably in the nature of writ of mandamus declaring the action of the 1st respondent in returning the ICRs and Nominal Rolls of SSC students 15 in number who have appeared through Sai Vidhya Mandir High School, Choutuppal, Nalgonda District without assigning any reason as arbitrary, illegal and violative of Article 14 of the Consitutiton of India and further direct the respondents to receive the ICRs and Nominal Rolls of the petitioners enabling them to appear in SSC examination to be held on 24.03.2008 by issuing Hall Tickets and pass Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.K.JAYA KUMAR Counsel for the Respondent No.: GP FOR EDUCATION The Court made the following : THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO W.P.NO.23227 OF 2007, 3529, 4445, 5713, 5699, 5904, 6002, 6069 and 6110 OF 2008 ORAL COMMON ORDER: In all these writ petitions the grievance nurtured by the students, who are the petitioners, is that for totally unjust reasons and for reasons unconnected to their conduct and behavior, they have been prevented from appearing for the S.S.C. (X class) examinations that were conducted in the month of March 2008. The leaned Government Pleader for School Education has placed the orders of the State Government, which sought to remedy the situation, contained in their Memorandum No. 6128/Exams/2008, dated 10-04-2008, which reads as under: “ The attention of the Director of Government Examination, Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, is informed that in a review meeting held on 8.4.2008, the Hon’ble Chief Minister approved the proposal of School Education Department to conduct a special examination for all those X Class students who could not appear for SSC public examination 2008 as they were not issued Hall Tickets because they have either submitted their applications with a delay or for any other reason what so ever. 2. Therefore, the Director of Government Examination is directed to conduct the Special Examination for X Class from 25.4.2008 at the rate of two papers a day and make all the arrangements for Evaluation and declaration of results well in time to enable those students who fail in the Special examination to appear for advanced supplementary examination to be held in the month of May/June 2008. 3. The Director of Government Examination is directed to take immediate steps to implement the above orders and submit compliance report immediately.” (Emphasis is mine) Thus, the State Government had taken a decision to allow a Special Supplementary Examination to be conducted for all those students, whose applications have not been processed earlier and for whatever be the reasons they could not appear for the examinations that were conducted during March 2008. Therefore, all such students, who prosecuted their S.S.C. (X Class) course during the academic year 2007-08 and who could not appear for the S.S.C. examinations conducted during March 2008, irrespective of the reasons for such a failure, shall be permitted to appear for the Special Supplementary Examinations, which are slated to be conducted from 25-04-2008 onwards. The applications of the students be entertained and received by the District Educational Officers up to 19-04-2008. The District Educational Officers will ensure that their offices will receive the applications submitted by the students individually or the School Managements till 19-04-2008 and all such applications will be processed and all such students shall be permitted to appear for the Special Examination. This order will be given publicity by the Director of School Education through both print and electronic media so that all students, whether they are petitioners before this Court or not, will avail this opportunity. With this, all these writ petitions are disposed of, but however, without costs. -------------------------------- Nooty Ramamohana Rao, J 16th April 2008 mrk ..... REGISTRAR // TRUE COPY // SECTION OFFICER To 1.2CCs to 2.2CD copies Form-NIC-OGS/WP{MSN}