Uncertainty over CBSE Class X, XII results after marks policy reforms

New Delhi, May 25: Uncertainty prevailed over the announcement of the CBSE?Class X and XII results, with the Union government exploring legal options on a Delhi High Court stay on the scrapping of the moderation of marks policy for this year.

“The order of the high court is being studied. The CBSE may file a special leave petition (appeal) in the Supreme Court, challenging the Delhi High Court’s order on Thursday,” an official source in the human resource development (HRD) ministry said. Earlier in the day, senior officials of the ministry and the CBSE held a meeting on the issue. HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar had called the meeting, which was attended by CBSE chairman R K Chaturvedi and ministry’s Department of School Education Secretary Anil Swarup.

“At the meeting, it was decided that the board should take a legal opinion on the high court’s decision before taking any further step,” the source said. The CBSE was gearing up to announce the results this week without moderation of marks. But the high court on Tuesday directed it to continue with its moderation policy.

While CBSE officials and those in the ministry remained tight-lipped, official sources said that results may not get delayed.

The CBSE has not yet announced the date for the declaration of the results, but there were reports in various sections of the media that the results could be declared by the board anytime this week.

“Even as an SLP is filed with the apex court, announcement of results would not be delayed. Whatever the court says on the board’s appeal, it will be followed,” an official said.

The board is looking for legal options to challenge the Delhi High Court order on its moderation policy as at least six state governments, including Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, have declared the results of the Class X and XII board examinations.

“If CBSE continues with the moderation of marks policy this year following the high court’s order, it will create a peculiar situation because many of the states ended moderation of marks from this year itself,” a source said.

The HRD minister refused to comment on the issue, saying “CBSE will speak on it”. “That’s why I have asked CBSE. They will issue a statement on this issue. Let us not hurry. Just wait,” Javadekar said, when asked what would happen to those states that declared the results of the board examination of their schools without moderation of marks if CBSE implements the high court order.

Marks Moderation Policy

Marks Moderation Policy is basically a provision of providing grace marks to students who are falling short of a few marks from passing the board exam. The moderation policy also makes provision for giving grace marks to students for extra difficult questions in the question paper or for any question with errors.

According to the provision, upon receiving enough complaints about difficulty level of questions in any subject, CBSE would form an expert panel which would then determine what grace marks to provide for such questions to each student. The policy had resulted in inflation of students who scored more than 95 per cent marks between 2008 to 2014.

CBSE removed the Marks Moderation Policy this year in order to keep the percentage of students scoring more than 95 per cent marks in check. However, with most of the state boards retaining the grace marks policy at least for this year, it is likely that state board students would have an upper hand in under graduate admission this year.

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Elusive bamboo shrimp resurfaces in Mangaluru estuary after 70 years

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December 7,2025

Mangaluru, Dec 7: A rare bamboo shrimp has been rediscovered on mainland India more than 70 years after it was last reported, confirming for the first time the presence of Atyopsis spinipes in the country. The find was made by researchers from the Centre for Climate Change Studies at Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, during surveys in Karnataka and Odisha.

The team — shrimp expert Dr S Prakash, PhD scholar K Kunjulakshmi, and Mangaluru-based researcher Maclean Antony Santos — combined field surveys, ecological assessments and DNA analysis to identify the elusive species. Their findings, published in Zootaxa, resolve decades of taxonomic confusion stemming from a 1951 report that misidentified the species as Atyopsis moluccensis without strong evidence.

The shrimp has now been confirmed at two locations: the Mulki–Pavanje estuary near Mangaluru and the Kuakhai River in Bhubaneswar. Historical specimens from the Andaman Islands, previously labelled as A. moluccensis, were also found to be misidentified and actually belong to A. spinipes.

The rediscovery began after an aquarium hobbyist in Odisha spotted a shrimp in 2022, prompting systematic surveys across Udupi, Karwar and Mangaluru. Four female specimens were collected in Mulki and one in Odisha, all genetically matching.

Researchers warn the species may exist in very small, vulnerable populations as freshwater habitats face increasing pressure from pollution, sand mining and infrastructure development. All verified specimens have been deposited with the Zoological Survey of India for future reference.

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