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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Kumaraswamy accuses Cong govt of 'neglecting' farmers in Karnataka
Mysuru (PTI): Union Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Tuesday accused the Congress government in Karnataka of "neglecting" the farmers in the state and being involved in corruption.
The JD(S) leader took part in an event where President Droupadi Murmu inaugurated the 1066th Jayanthi celebrations of Adi Jagadguru Sri Shivarathreeshwara Shivayogi Mahaswamiji at Malavalli in Mandya district, which comes under his Lok Sabha constituency.
"I saw a report that 2,800 farmers have died by suicide after this government came to power (in state). The government seems to be not concerned about the farmers. This government on coming to power said that it will give Rs 24,000 crore as loan to 32 lakh farmers for their farming activities, but till November, about Rs 12,000 crore has been paid to 24 lakh farmers, limiting to what was there earlier by managing the books of account," Kumaraswamy said.
Speaking to reporters here, he said, "These things show the failures of this government. Also, there is a corrupt system. I will not speak about it now. After December 20, I will speak to you in detail. There are a lot of issues to share with you."
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Responding to a question, the JD(S) leader, who turned 66 today, said there is no use of giving any documents. "I'm waiting for the right time."
Regarding the Congress government introducing a bill against "hate speech" in the Assembly, Kumaswamy said it is aimed at silencing the opposition in the state, but they won't be successful.
"What do Congress leaders have to say about their workers' comments against Prime Minister Narendra Modi?. He cited slogans -- 'Modi teri kabr khudegi, aaj nahi to kal khudegi' (Modi's grave will be dug.. if not today, then tomorrow) -- allegedly raised against Modi at a Congress rally in Delhi on Sunday.
