"Focus On Studies": Supreme Court To Student On School Reopen Plea
NDTV
The top court spotlighted that different states have different rules and it can't be one size fits all, adding that children should refrain from filing such pleas.
Focus on studies, not filing petitions, the Supreme Court today advised a Class XII student who petitioned the top court seeking resumption of physical classes in schools arguing that the coronavirus pandemic has "substantially subsided".
"Tell the child to focus on studies and not on filing petitions...I am not saying it's a publicity gimmick but the kind of relief that has been sought, is misplaced," said the two-judge bench, of DY Chandrachud and BV Nagarathnam, dismissing the plea.
The top court spotlighted that different states have different rules and it can't be one size fits all, adding that children should refrain from filing such pleas.
"We can't issue judicial diktats saying all children should be sent to school...Let us leave it upon state governments. On the democratic set up. They also want children to go back to schools. Different states have different number of districts and of varying population density. We cannot take governance upon ourselves," ruled the Supreme Court.
