Students protest CCTV inside examination hall, write paper sitting on verandah
Sambalpur, Mar 12 (UNI): As many as 68 college students, including 24 girls, today protested against the CCTV cameras installed inside the examination hall and instead of sitting inside the hall, sat on the verandah of the college and resorted to all unfair means in the Plus Two examination.
The incident took place at a private college in the tribal-dominated Deogarh in western Odisha and one of the oldest college in the region.
The collector and police superintendent of the district had to rush to the college to mitigate the situation and when their counselling did not yield any result, the question papers and answer sheets of the 68 students were confiscated.
According to schedule, the Plus Two science examination was going on today in the upper hall of the college where CC TV was installed to check malpractice.
But students protested against it and went to the ground floor, sat on the verandah and wrote for the examination paper using all unfair means. Neither they listened to the invigilators on duty nor to principal of the college Santoshini Satapathy.
The college principal then informed the matter to the collector and SP.
"Since all the students had been booked for malpractice today, the education department will now decide whether they can appear in the next examinations,” said the collector Sudhansu Mohan Samal.
However, the deputy secretary of CHSE Uttam Pradhan said that students would be allowed to appear in the next papers if they agree to obey the rules and maintain discipline.
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