Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 18: With examination of 10th and 12th classes round the corner in winter zones of the State, the JK-BOSE is creating exam centres on pick and choose basis in violation of the stipulated criteria and without conforming to the prescribed norms of suitability and feasibility.
In a press statement here NPP chairman and former Minister Harsh Dev Singh said that there was large scale resentment amongst various sections and areas with regard to the arbitrary and whimsical approach of the BOSE authorities in the creation of new exam centres and cancellation of existing centres. He said that he was approached by several deputations who complained about the vested interests of the JK-BOSE authorities and their political masters in the creation of such centres including special centres for blue eyed examinees.
Mr Singh observed that while the menace of mass copying and patronized copying continued unabated, the BOSE continued to accord its approval to special centres for the privileged while denying at the same time the legitimate claims of the bonafide deserving areas. He said that exam centres in several rural areas had been cancelled by JK-BOSE without assigning any reason for extraneous considerations despite such centres fulfilling the requisite criteria.
Making a particular mention of HSS Khaned in district Udhampur, he said that the students had been deprived of 10th Class and 12th Class Exam Centre which had been shelved only for the reason that the school students had organized persistent protests against Education Department for the chronic staff deficiency faced by the said school. He said the class 12th students/examinees including girl students had to tread on foot 12 kms all the way from Khaned, Rai Chak and Kadwa, crossing streams and rivulets to the HSS Basantgarh to appear in exams which was highly reprehensible, he added.
Urging upon the Education Minister to take cognizance of the matter, Mr Singh sought establishment of exam centre in the said school as well as other rural area schools where students had to travel huge distance on foot though jungles, rivers and difficult terrains including HS Dudu, HS Sia-Merri, HS Balota Chigla, HS Joffar besides others.
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