Srinagar: Education minister Sakeena Itoo on Wednesday said the students of class 10th who could not write their first paper of Board exams due to some errors in their admit cards or “technical reasons”, will be allowed to write the remaining papers.
“These poor students met yesterday and started crying because they missed the exam. Either it was a mistake of the students or it was the fault of the school. In some schools they have done some doubling and in some cases some clerical mistakes have happened because of which they were not allowed to sit in the exam,” education minister said.
She said that the number of the students who faced the issue was around 24 to 25 and are mostly enrolled in private schools.“I don’t know how these schools run their system,” she said.
She said that ahead of exams she convened a meeting of CEOs and ZEOs of government schools a month ago and passed strict instructions that the students should not face any problem during exams.
“I told them that if there is any student who has not applied for exams or any students whose examination form has not been sent by the concerned school, I will fix the responsibility on the school,” Itoo said.
The minister said that all the students who faced issues and could not appear in the first paper, all of them will write all the remaining papers.
“I have told the chairman (BOSE) about it. The students will be allowed to sit in the examination centres in all the remaining papers,” she said.
