STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: With examination of 10th and 12th Class round the corner in Winter Zones of the State, the JKBOSE 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 alleged Harsh Dev Singh, JKNPP Chairman and former Education Minister.
He 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.
Harsh observed that while the menace of mass copying and patronised 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 JKBOSE 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 Class 10th and 12th Exam Centre which had been shelved only for the reason that the school students had organised persistent protests against Education Deptt. and local MLA for chronic staff deficiency faced by the said school. He regretted that in order to wreck vengeance upon the students for expressing their indignation over administrative failures; they had been deprived of exam centre facility despite an examinees strength of 115 against the minimum requirement of 75 examinees needed for an exam centre.
Besides the Class 12 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 cognisance of the grave injustice to the students of HSS Khaned, he 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.
He said that people and students of affected areas would be forced to resort to agitational course in case the politicisation of exam centres was not checked forthwith.
