CUTTACK: The Odisha Abhibhabak Mahasangh , an outfit of parents of school students, will file a petition in Orissa high court highlighting the plight of thousands of Class XII students , who have been affected due to faulty evaluation of their answer sheets by CBSE.The Mahasangh will urge court to intervene into the matter and provide relief to the students by directing the CBSE to re-evaluate answer scripts of all the affected students."We are discussing the case with our lawyers and will move court in a day or two. Many poor students cannot move high court, hence the Mahasangh has decided to file a single petition highlighting the problem of thousands of class XII students affected due to the wrong evaluation process," said Mahasangh's chairman, Sudarsan Das. "We will pray the court to direct CBSE to re-evaluate answer sheets of all the affected students. Hopefully, the court will favour us as it has given similar relief to 18 students on Wednesday," added Das.Meanwhile, a delegation of the Mahasangh met the higher education minister Ananta Das on Thursday and pleaded him to extend the last date for admission in colleges, including technical colleges, across the state by 15 days. The delegation also met officials at chief minister's office and made similar prayer.Das said presently June 20 is the last date for admission in colleges across the state but due to faulty evaluation by CBSE board , many brilliant class XII students have not managed to apply in colleges and will be deprived from getting higher education. "We will move court and the process will take some time. So we have prayed minister and CMO to extend the admission dates," said Das.He said they will write a letter to Union human resources development minister Prakash Javadekar to extend the last dates of admission into different colleges and universities across the country also. Members of the Mahasangh said over 30 students have filed individual petitions in the high court praying for re-evaluation on Thursday.Notably, the Mahasangh and students have been staging agitation outside the CBSE office alleging faulty evaluation. The agitators are on dharna in front of the CBSE regional office at Bhubaneswar alleging that many of them have been given single digit mark in one subject while they have scored 80 to 90 marks in other subject. They have been demanding immediate re-evaluation of examination papers but the CBSE board had rejected the re-evaluation plea as the policy has been scrapped from November last year.

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