DESAM bars 1924 candidates from 2013 HSLC examination
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, February 21 2013:
Alleging non-compliance to prescribed registration rules, Democratic Students' Alliance of Manipur (DESAM) today declared that 1924 students should not be eligible to appear at the forthcoming matriculation examination.
According to DESAM president Wangmayum Islamuddin, there is clear indication that some officials in the Board of Secondary Education Manipur in connivance with certain individuals/agents tried to forge documents for registering nearly 2000 students to facilitate their appearance in the Board-conducted class X examination scheduled to be held from February 27 .
Explaining on the registration procedure at its Keishampat office today, Islamuddin highlighted that for appearing in the 2012 HSLC examination the eligibility criteria begins with the students' registration to the board from the class VIII level.
contrary to such criteria laid down by the Board, in the previous HSLC examination a total of 7000 students were found to have violated the registration procedure out of which involvement of some Board officials to accommodate about 4382 of the students in the last matriculation examination was detected, claimed the student activist.
Pointing out that these students, from a total of 53 schools, have already been declared as ineligible by student organisations, he further alleged that out of the 4382 de-listed students, 1924 of them were found to be freshly listed among the candidates for the ensuing Board examination.
Cautioning both the Board officials and agents against any further attempt to make these students eligible for the upcoming HSLC examination, Islamuddin also insisted that DESAM would not entertain complaints by the parents/guardians of these students with the assertion that they (parents) have to take the moral responsibility for not following prescribed norms.