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Tamil Nadu hasn’t yet permitted online classes by schools and colleges, govt informs Madras high court

Sureshkumar | TNN | Jun 10, 2020, 12:48 IST

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CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu

 government on Wednesday informed the Madras high court

 that the state has not yet permitted the conduct of online classes

by schools

 and colleges

. The institutions were also restrained — through a government order — from demanding fee, it added.

Government pleader V Jayaprakash Narayan made the submission in response to a public interest litigation seeking to restrain educational institutions from conducting online classes without the state framing appropriate guidelines governing such classes under the Information Technology Act.

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Petitioner S Saranya, who is mother of two children, said during the online session, several advertisements with explicit content were popping up, disturbing the students’ mind and lives.

When the plea came up for hearing on Wednesday, senior counsel S Prabakaran for the petitioner sought the court to pass an interim order restraining educational institutions from conducting such classes.

Even the state government said that they had not permitted such classes, he said.

However, a division bench of Justice Vineet Kothari and Justice R Suresh Kumar refused to grant any interim relief. “No interim relief can be ordered since we do not know the ground reality,” the bench said.

The court then directed the Centre and the state government to file a report on the availability of any guidelines governing such online classes. The judges adjourned the hearing to June 25.