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‘Hand over results in PTA meet to avert suicides’
Even as the results for public exams are due anytime, a public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Madras High Court seeking to hand over the results of the exams to students during a parent-teacher meeting and not to publish them in newspapers and websites to prevent students who fail from committing suicides.
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The PIL is expected to come up for hearing before the division bench part of the vacation court on Wednesday.
The petitioner A Senthil Kumar of Chennai has contended that the results of the public examinations held by the state for Classes 10, 11, and 12 are published in newspapers and websites.
But the students who fail in the exams lose hope and mostly end up committing suicide.
Noting that in a few cases students have died, the petitioner submitted that there is a dire need to go in for an alternative method of announcing the results and the best would be to hand over the results to the students along with their respective parents/guardians in a parent-teacher meeting.
While referring to various such suicide incidents in the recent past, the petitioner said appropriate counseling must be given to the students while handing over the results and the parents of the student should also take care of their ward and ensure that they don’t resort to any such extreme steps.
He also said that his representation to the state authorities in this regard on April 14, 2018, had failed to evoke any response and hence he moved the plea.
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