Plight of Classes X, XII CBSE students ; Panel set up, probe begins, report in a month
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, March 02 2015:
A fact finding committee with the Education (S) Director as chairman has been constituted to investigate the non-delivery of admit cards to a sizeable of number of students who are to appear for the Class X and Class XII exams of CBSE this month.
Sources informed that the committee would probe into the case and submit a report within a month.
The committee headed by Education (S) Director N Prabin would investigate why the students are not given admit cards and whether there were any lapses on the part of school authorities.
The committee has started due procedures in order to collect statements of school authorities where the students are enrolled, added the sources.
Earlier in the State Assembly today, Education Minister M Okendro stated that the five schools where the students were enrolled were neither affiliated to CBSE nor given any official recognition as per the findings of the fact finding committee.
Responding to a query raised by Th Shyamkumar, L Ibomcha and Dr I Ibohalbi about barring around 2500 students of the State from appearing CBSE exams of Class X and Class XII, Okendro maintained that those schools were not schools in the real sense of the term but small coaching centres.
The figure of 2500 students is simply bombastic.
So many students cannot be enrolled in those small coaching centres.
The number of students would not exceed 400 or 500, Okendro asserted.
The fact finding committee has been investigating the matter based on six terms of reference.
Based on the report submitted by the committee, the Government would consider what can be done for the victimized students.
At the moment, the Government cannot do anything to save their academic year for CBSE syllabus is quite different from the State syllabus.
Those people who enrolled students by claiming their coaching centres to be schools have gone into hiding.
Arrangements were made for the students to give the CBSE exams at MM Higher Secondary School and Little Rose Higher Secondary School but it ended in disastrous failure.
The State Government has already written to CBSE to take up befitting action against MM Higher Secondary School and Little Rose Higher Secondary House, Okendro informed the House.
Parents of those victimized students cannot claim innocence.
There are many parents who call out their children to Imphal to give board exams here with the objective of securing high marks even though their children were studying in schools located outside the State.
They had realized that their children would be barred from appearing for CBSE exams since October last year and they came out to streets raising all the hue and cry only at the 11th hour.
However, no formal complaint or representation was submitted to the relevant Minister or the Director concerned, Okendro stated.
In accordance to a Cabinet decision adopted in 2005, there could be only two CBSE schools in a district.
In line with the same Cabinet decision, the Government gave consent to establishment of two CBSE schools in 2011 .
After that no one applied for establishment of schools.
Nonetheless, schools were being set up in all directions.
Taking serious note of the fast multiplying number of schools, the State Government initiated due procedures to frame a regulatory mechanism but the same process was delayed with the introduction of Right to Education Act.
Nevertheless, the regulatory mechanism would be finalized shortly.
Raising the motion, Th Shyamkumar, L Ibomcha and Dr I Ibohalbi appealed to the State Government to make some special arrangements for the 2500 students so that they are sparred from losing one crucial academic year.
They also suggested the House to enact a legislation in order to check indiscriminate establishment of schools.
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