Bengaluru: Primary and secondary education minister Suresh Kumar has directed officials to begin preparations to conduct the SSLC examination, which had been stalled due to the Corona lockdown.
The minister held a video conference with the deputy directors of public instruction (DDPI) of all districts on Monday. Students of all districts are eager to know the schedule of the examination. The officials should pay immediate attention to conducting the SSLC examination keeping in mind the social conditions, following the COVID-19 pandemic attack, necessary precautionary measures should be implemented at the examination centres., said the minister.
Suresh Kumar also gathered information regarding the preparations to be made in the districts as per local necessity, as, in the backdrop of the Corona attack, the districts in Karnataka have been segregated as red, orange, green and containment zones. Since maintaining social distance has been stressed upon in the current times, it is necessary to help students not distance themselves from one another emotionally or mentally. The preparations for examination should focus on this too, insisted the minister.
Speaking further, he said that students who would be answering the examination will have to be provided masks and sanitizer at the centres. The students should also be made to undergo thermal scan before answering. In case of a student showing symptoms of fever, the student should be provided a separate room to answer, the officials were told.
Sidelights:
- The Department of Public Instruction is already conducting revision classes in Chandana Vahini for students answering SSLC examination. Similar classes will begin for English medium students too
- Examination centres in containment zones will have to be shifted. Sub-centres will have to be opened. Every examination hall will have lesser than the usual 24 students. Also, every hall will have CCTV cameras installed and medical facilities provided. An action plan should be readied to implement this.
- The examination schedule should be declared. Special care should be given to necessary gap between subjects.
- An action plan should be prepared to permit students from other places to answer the examination in cities or towns where they currently are.
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Four of family found dead in Maharashtra’s Nanded district in suspected mass suicide
Nanded (PTI): A farmer, his wife and their two sons were found dead in two different locations in Maharashtra’s Nanded district on Thursday morning, in what police suspect to be a mass suicide, an official said.
Around 8 am, the bodies of Ramesh Sonaji Lakhe (51) and his wife Radhabai Lakhe (45) were discovered on a cot in their home at Jawala Murar village in Mudkhed tehsil, he said.
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The bodies of their sons, Umesh (25) and Bajrang (23), were subsequently found on nearby railway lines. It appears they jumped in front of a speeding train, the official said.
Police inspector Dattatray Manthale told reporters, “The parents were found dead inside their home, while the sons took their lives on the railway tracks. We have asked a Forensic Science Laboratory team to collect evidence. The truth will come out only after a thorough technical investigation and autopsy.”
While the nature of their death appears to be part of a suicide pact, police said the exact circumstances remain unclear.
The family belonged to the small-scale farming community, but it is not yet confirmed if financial distress or a domestic crisis triggered the extreme step, the official said.
Neighbours described the Lakhes as a hardworking family who struggled against the odds of small-land farming to sustain themselves.
The Nanded rural police are recording statements of relatives and checking for notes or final messages left by the family.
