Haryana teachers’ bodies oppose FIRs against staff on exam duty

Tribune News Service

Deepender Deswal

Hisar, March 5

Teachers associations have protested against the registration of FIRs against the teachers in the incidents of paper leak at examination centres in Charkhi Dadri and Nuh district by the Board of School Education Haryana (BSEH), Bhiwani. The associations have threatened to launch an agitation on the issue and said the teachers on duty were not responsible for such incidents as it was a matter of law and order.

Cases registered at 2 centres

• The BSEH has got a case registered against the centre superintendent and observer of Government Senior Secondary School, Tapkan Kalan, on the charges of paper leak during the examinations, recently.
• In another incident, nine persons, including staff members deployed at Government Senior Secondary School at Naurangabad Rajputana village in Charkhi Dadri district were booked for paper leak on Saturday. The BSEH chairperson, VP Yadav, had conducted the raid on the school and detected a paper leak.

The Haryana School Lecturers Association (HSLA) and Haryana School Teachers Association (HSTA) have taken up the issue with the BSEH officials and written letters to the chairperson expressing resentment over the registration of the FIRs against the teaching staff on duty.

The BSEH has got a case registered against the centre superintendent and an observer of Government Senior Secondary School, Tapkan Kalan, on the charge of paper leak during the examination, recently. In another incident, nine persons, including staff members, deployed at Government Senior Secondary School at Naurangabad Rajputana village in Charkhi Dadri district were booked for paper leak on Saturday. The BSEH chairperson, VP Yadav, had conducted the raid on the school and detected a paper leak on Saturday.

The HSLA state secretary, Gurdeep Saini, said the action should be taken against the students concerned and outsiders who leaked the paper during the exam. But it was wrong to indict the teachers and centre superintendent. The teachers should be booked only after a probe found them guilty in the matter, he said. The association leader urged the board official to withdraw the criminal cases against the staff and threatened to launch a stir if the innocent teachers were harassed. The district president of HSTA, Mahender Singh, who led a delegation to the BSEH office, and submitted a representation to the board secretary said unscrupulous elements had been indulging in paper leak incidents. “It is a matter of law and order and the police must take action against those who indulge in paper leak. It is difficult for the staff to prevent unscrupulous elements who sneak into the examination centre and leak the paper by taking pictures of the question paper on their mobile phone. The police should be deployed outside the examination centres to prevent such elements from entering the centres,” said Singh. However, he added that even if any teacher/staff on duty was found guilty in such an incident after an inquiry, then action should also be taken against them.

The examinations of Classes X and XII were being held at 1,484 examination centres across the state and 5,80,533 students were appearing in the examinations. The prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the CrPC had been imposed near the exam centres.

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