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Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (UM/MS)

Udupi, Mar 24: A staff of the Udupi district education board came to light on Friday, March 23, the first day of the SSLC examination, was caught in an alleged dereliction of duty after he was found chatting casually with parents of students at the government school of Olakadu here, with the question papers lying on the bonnet of the jeep in which they were being transferred from zone center to the school.

According to the rules of the education department, three persons (route officer, police personnel and staff of education department) are supposed to accompany the exam question papers when they are being transferred from zone center to the exam centre.

Once the vehicle reaches the school, the staff of the education department becomes the custodian of the question papers of that particular examination centre. The official has to hand over the question papers to the head of the institution in the presence of vigilance squad in a room which has CCTV camera.

With such strict guidelines are in place, it is clear that the staff in question committed dereliction of duty. It needs to be seen what action the officials of the education department will take on the erring person.

SSLC question paper leaked in Vijayapura

On the first day of the SSLC exams itself there was an incident of question paper leak reported from Muddebihala of Vijayapura district. An unknown person took the question paper from a student who was in the examination room and took the photo of the same on his mobile and uploaded it on WhatsApp.

This incident came to the attention of the authorities after one-and-a-half hours of the start of the examination. The invigilator of the examination room where this incident occurred is suspended by the education department with immediate effect.

Apart from the above incident, nine students, who tried copying during the exams, were debarred from writing the examination. Out of the nine students who were debarred for copying, six are from different parts of Dharwad district and one each from Bagalkot, Kalaburagi and Chikkodi.

In addition, 26,799 students did not appear for the examination. Students could not write the examination due to the wrong address of the examination center mentioned on their hall tickets.

Display of humanity by the state high school examination board

Karnataka state high school examination board displayed its humanitarian face by allowing Ruman, a student, who was injured in an accident, to write the examination in a sleeping position in a school in Bengaluru.