Teachers hail high court verdict

TEACHERS ASSOCIATIONS have hailed the decision of the Allahabad High Court quashing the government order on self-centre exam system in UP Board examinations for High School and Intermediate.

TEACHERS ASSOCIATIONS have hailed the decision of the Allahabad High Court quashing the government order on self-centre exam system in UP Board examinations for High School and Intermediate.

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However, they suggested that the Board examinations should be conducted under the direct supervision of the district administration instead of the
Secondary Education authorities, to ensure maximum transparency.
Senior teacher leader and MLA Rajbhadur Singh Chandel said that misuse of self-centre exam system by some schools had defamed it even though it was started in public interest.

He said that self-centre exam system was followed on the basis of higher education centre system and it was good, especially for the students studying in schools located in the rural areas where students, especially girls, had to earlier face lot of hardships to cover long distances in reaching their centres.
Divisional secretary of Madhyamik Shikshak Sangh (Sharma group) Hemraj Singh Gaur appreciated the decision of the court and demanded that Board examinations should be conducted under the direct supervision of the district administration to check copying.

Replying to a question, Gaur alleged that earlier illegal money transaction had taken place in the allotment of self-centres and now the same problem may recur in the allotment of examination centres as per the choice of particular schools.

State president of the Dalit Pichada Alpshankhyak Madhyamik Shishak Sangh Rajesh Gautam also hailed the decision of the high court and said that self-centre exam system had been corrupted by private schools in order to get fame by adopting unfair means of copying for their students.

Moreover, government-aided schools were losing their importance as most of the students were interested in private schools to get good marks. State secretary of the Madhyamik Shishak Sangh (Panday group) Prakash Chandra Dixit also appreciated the court’s verdict and said that private schools were earning huge profits in the self examination system and now this could be checked.

However, he said that direct supervision of district administration was must to ensure maximum transparency in Board
exams.