Four teachers suspended in Rajasthan for mishandling board exam answer sheets
Jaipur: The Rajasthan Education Department has suspended four teachers for serious breaches in the handling of Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education (RBSE) exam answer sheets, citing gross negligence and violations of confidentiality and evaluation protocols.
The suspensions were announced late Monday by Ashish Modi, Director of the Education Directorate, Bikaner, following alarming reports from ongoing evaluation centres.
Two of the suspended teachers, Omprakash Gai Saini and Meenakshi Arora, are from Government Higher Secondary School near the Railway Station in Alwar. Saini, a senior mathematics teacher, allegedly left RBSE Secondary Examination answer sheets unattended in the presence of interns. Arora, a Hindi literature teacher, reportedly took photographs of open answer sheets and shared them with media outlets.
Both educators were immediately suspended for violating strict confidentiality norms. Saini has also been barred from participating in the answer sheet evaluation process for the next three years. During the suspension period, they have been assigned to the District Education Officer’s office in Alwar.
In a separate case from the Didwana-Kuchaman area in Nagaur district, senior Sanskrit teacher Bhanvruddin of Government Higher Secondary School, Bagot, was found to have colluded with Pradeep Kumar Sharma of Government Higher Secondary School, Nimbari (Makrana), to manipulate marks. Shockingly, Sharma also involved his father in the tampering process.
The Nagaur-based teachers have been suspended with immediate effect and reassigned to the District Education Officer’s office in Nagaur.
The Education Department has reiterated its commitment to maintaining transparency and integrity in the board examination system, warning that strict action will be taken against any further violations.
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Two injuries, one DNF, a DQ as India end messy World Relays campaign
Gaborone (Botswana) (PTI): Amoj Jacob and Ragul Kumar got injured during the men's 4x400m and 4x100 races respectively as India ended their World Athletics Relays campaign in disappointment on the second day of competitions here on Sunday.
The Indian camp had high hopes of making the 2027 World Championships in the men's 4x400m relay but the team did not finish (DNF) the race as Jacob suffered cramps and pulled out of the race after taking the baton from the first leg runner Dharamveer Choudhary. Rajesh Ramesh and Vishal TK were to run in the third and fourth legs.
Those teams which could not qualify for the 2027 Beijing World Championships by reaching the final round of each of the six relay events on Saturday were given another chance in the second qualification round on Sunday.
The top two teams in each of the two heats (in all six relay events) booked the Beijing ticket on Sunday.
India will now have to try and qualify for the World Championships through the Top Lists of the World Athletics, which is a long and tedious process.
In the men's 4x100m race, third leg runner Ragul Kumar fell down the track after failing to hand over the baton inside the exchange zone to fourth leg runner Gurindervir Singh, which clearly showed the lack of coordination among the runners.
Harsh Santosh Raut and Animesh Kujur ran the first two legs.
The Indian quartet was disqualified and Kumar was seen being taken away from the Field of Play with the help of the volunteers.
It was a comedy of errors in the case of the women's 4x100m race, which saw the baton being dropped during an exchange between first leg runner Tamanna and second runner Nithya Gandhe, though the Indians finished the race in 53.09 seconds.
Gandhe started running quite a distance, but after realising that the baton was not in her hand, she turned and ran back to pick it up.
The only silver-lining for the Indian contingent was the national record time in the mixed 4x100m relay race, though the quartet of Ragul Kumar, Nithya Gandhe, Animesh Kujur and Sneha SS finished sixth in heat number two with a time of 41.35 seconds, bettering the previous national mark of 42.30 seconds set in March in Chandigarh.
The mixed 4x400m relay quartet of Theerthesh P Shetty, Kumari Saloni, Nihal William and Rashdeep Kaur ended at fifth in heat number one with a time of 3 minutes and 19.40 seconds.
On Saturday, all the five Indian relay teams had failed to make it to the respective final rounds and thus missed out on the 2027 World Championships berths.
