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Copying mafia rule the roost
DESPITE EFFORTS of the district education authorities to check copying during annual examination of Uttar Pradesh Higher Secondary Examination, the copying mafia are ruling the roost in this prestigious examination here in Varanasi district.
DESPITE EFFORTS of the district education authorities to check copying during annual examination of Uttar Pradesh Higher Secondary Examination, the copying mafia are ruling the roost in this prestigious examination here in Varanasi district.
As a result of this, more than 60 students have been caught copying during board examinations and disciplinary action has been initiated against more than a dozen teachers and centre superintendent in Varanasi district alone.
The role of internal flying squads of examination centres are also under suspicion as not a single copycat has been nabbed by these flying squads in the entire district ever since the commencement of the board examination on March 4 this year. However, the flying squads of the District Education Department have nabbed more than 60 copycats in the district alone.
Sources said that authorities at examination centres were neither checking the students before the commencement of the examination nor conducting regular patrolling in examination halls. This irresponsible attitude of internal flying squads has boosted the morale of students and copy mafiosi who are engaged in copying at mass and individual level.
Even room invigilators are reported to have dictating the answers at some centres in the district. Copying has become so rampant that district magistrate Nitin Ramesh Gokaran raided some examination centers, recently. The district education authorities are conducting videography of these hyper-sensitive centres.
District Inspector of School (DIOS) Onkar Shukla said the internal flying squads were lenient towards students due to self-centres.
“In self centres most of the students belong to the same school and therefore the internal flying squads do not initiate strict action against them,” he said.
Meanwhile, associate district inspector of school Dr Dinesh Singh nabbed a copycat at Deo Bhagwatacharya Inter College in Nai Sarak area on Friday.
The board examinations are being conducted at 157 centres in Varanasi district out of which 10 centres have been declared hyper-sensitive in view of copying.
As many as 52,910 students were registered for High School examination whereas a total of 42,601 students were registered for Intermediate examination in Varanasi district this year.
A total of five flying squads have been constituted to ensure that the students do not use unfair means during examinations.
