SSLC students won't be allowed to wear watches while writing examinations from this year
Bengaluru, November 27: In order to check exam malpractices in exam centres, the Secondary Education Examination Board has prohibited the students attending the exams with watches.
This norm would come into effect from the SSLC annual exam to be held next year and it was decided to put up wall clocks in exam halls, due to which, the students have to attend the exams without wrist watches. Earlier, the Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA) had implemented this norm in CET exam. The KEA has purchased the wall clocks for all exam centres.
State Secondary Education Examination Board has announced the provisional time table for SSLC annual examination for 2019. As per the time table, the exams would be held from March 21 to April 4. Total 8.38 lakh students have enrolled for the exams to be held in over 3,000 exam centres.
Malpractice easy
Due to advanced technology, different varieties of wrist watches have come to market and it has become very easy to do malpractice through electronic watches. Through such electronic watches, the students can easily access their smart phones through Bluetooth option and involve in malpractice, it is said.
Some watches have the options of storing the photos and such watches are being called as cheat watches and they are available in the internet. Earlier, a student was trapped while engaging in malpractice during the exam in the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences.
Students oppose
But the students and parents opposed the decision of the board. They said that the students cannot follow the time if they do not have watches during exam hours. If needed, the board can prohibit digital watches. The students who will have normal watches should be allowed. Moreover, the digital watches which support the malpractice are costly and normal students cannot purchase them. So, the education department should withdraw its decision, they demanded.
“In order to maintain the quality of SSLC annual examination, the Board has decided to ban the watches. So, no one should wear wrist watches during exam time. Direction is given to put up wall clocks in all exam centres across the state”.
- V Sumangala, Director, State Secondary Education Examination Board
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Integrity of electoral process severely compromised, Cong to soon launch movement: CWC
New Delhi (PTI): The Congress Working Committee met here on Friday and adopted a resolution alleging the integrity of the entire electoral process was being severely compromised against which the party would soon launch a movement.
In the resolution of the top body of the Congress, the party said free and fair elections is a Constitutional mandate that was being called into "serious question by the partisan functioning of the Election Commission".
The CWC, which met amid the ongoing Winter Session of Parliament, said the session has been a washout so far because of the Narendra Modi government's "stubborn refusal" to have an immediate discussion on three pressing national issues -- "the recent revelations regarding corruption by a business group, and the violence in Manipur and Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal".
Asked why the Congress Working Committee (CWC) resolution does not name the business group, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said, "The answer is the Adani group".
"The CWC believes the integrity of the entire electoral process is being severely compromised. Free and fair elections is a Constitutional mandate that is being called into serious question by the partisan functioning of the Election Commission.
"Increasing sections of society are becoming frustrated and deeply apprehensive. The Congress will take these up these public concerns as a national movement," the resolution stated.
Addressing a joint press conference along with Ramesh and Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera, party general secretary, organisation, K C Venugopal said the party discussed the political situation in the country for four-and-half hours and adopted the resolution.
He said the CWC has decided to constitute internal committees to look into electoral performance and organisational matters.
About the Assembly polls results in Maharashtra, Venugopal said the electoral outcome in the state was "beyond normal understanding and it appears to be a clear case of targeted manipulation".
