The Odisha Human Rights Commission directed the Board of Secondary Education to not proceed with the offline examination of differently-abled students of class 10. The order came on a petition by rights activist Manoj Jena.

The order was issued against the BSE's decision to not declare the results of the High School Certificate examination of 139 differently-abled students of special schools. The OHRC then wondered why the BSE was insisting on offline-mode examination of the differently-abled students. The questions were raised that when the result of lakhs of students of general schools had been published without any examination then why not they get a general promotion. The BSE has decided to conduct the HSC examination of those who wished to take the written exam and of the 139 different-abled pupils of special school through the offline mode on July 30.

The petitioner said such a decision of the BSE was not only arbitrary but also intended to put the differently-abled students in utter difficulty. The commission said it did not find any justification on part of the BSE for such a decision and termed it "surprising". The rights panel warned that if anything untoward happens in the matter affecting the interest of the differently-abled students, it shall be the sole risk of the BSE and the officer concerned. The OHRC posted the matter on August 6 for further hearing.

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