Hijab Row: No re-exam for those who skipped Karnataka 2nd PUC board exams 2022

Only the students who will fail in Karnataka 2^nd PUC exams 2022 will be given an opportunity to sit for the supplementary examination. 

Karnataka Minister for Primary and Secondary Education BC Nagesh informed that no 2^nd PUC re-exams will be conducted for those who skipped them on account of the hijab row. He added that there is no such system for absentees. He said exams are competitive in nature and there cannot be humanitarian consideration for absentees.

Responding to a question regarding the conduct of Karnataka 2^nd PUC re-exams 2022 for those who skipped the papers, the minister said, "Whatever the Court has said, we will abide by it. Being absent from exams will only be the prime factor and not the reason, whether it may be because of hijab row or ill-health or inability to attend or for not having studied. In the final exam- absent means absent- repeat exams cannot be held.”

Karnataka 2^nd PUC supplementary exams 2022 not for absentees  

Only the students who will fail in Karnataka 2^nd PUC exams 2022 will be given an opportunity to sit for the supplementary examination, the minister added.  "There cannot be a new precedent, from the time the board exams are being held, there is no such system to hold re-exam for absentees," he added.

Karnataka 2^nd PUC exams 2022 were boycotted by several Muslim girl students after the Karnataka High Court's interim order in February restraining all the students from wearing saffron shawls, scarves, hijab and any religious flag within the classroom. The Court in its final order on March 15 had dismissed petitions filed by a section of Muslim girl students, seeking permission to wear the headscarf inside the classroom.

HC’s order on Hijab Row challenged in SC

The High Court order is now being challenged in the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, the offline classes are being boycotted by several Muslim girls. The students have also indicated about skipping second PUC (Class 12) board exams in April, with some of them making it clear that they would not return to classrooms without their hijab.

"If we consider humanitarian grounds, tomorrow people will come with varied reasons for not attending exams and seek re-exam. it cannot happen. There is no such system of holding re-exam for absentees," the minister said.

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