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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13,712-page chargesheet filed in Hassan pen drive obscene video case
Hassan: In a major development in the pen drive obscene video circulation case that created a stir in Hassan, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) has filed a detailed chargesheet running into 13,712 pages before a senior civil court in the district.
According to SIT sources, the chargesheet names a total of 52 individuals, out of whom charges have been confirmed against 39 persons. Investigation against the remaining individuals is still underway.
The key accused have been identified as Naveen (A1), Karthik N. (A2), who is a car driver, Chetan B.C. (A3), Chetan Y.S. (A4) and Likhith Gowda (A5). They are accused of being actively involved in the recording, storage and distribution of the videos.
Several other names have also been included in the chargesheet as part of the investigation, officials said, adding that further probe is continuing.
Reacting to the development, advocate and BJP leader Devarajegowda alleged that key accused have been left out of the chargesheet. He claimed that despite widespread knowledge about those involved in distributing the pen drives, their names do not appear in the chargesheet and termed the investigation a “false report.”
