STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI: The Secondary Education Board of Assam (SEBA), which has been under severe criticism due to the leakage of question papers of the High School Leaving Certificate Examination (HSLC), has issued a set of regulations for holding the papers.
The revised question papers of General Science and MIL-Assamese will be sent to police stations or outpost from 26 to 29 March 2023.
The confidential papers of both subjects will be packed in cartons and the cartons are to be received by the Officer-in-Charge of the police station or police outpost, in presence of the Centre-in-Charge and the Officer or staff deputed.
The sealed cartons of General Science & MIL-Assamese are not to be opened in the police station or police outpost. The Centre-in-Charge, with police escort, will take the sealed cartons to the Centre and they will be opened in the Strong Room only under CCTV surveillance.
The Officer or staff deputed from SEBA will collect all the rejected confidential documents of General Science and MIL-Assamese from police station or police outpost while returning back, in order to rule out any possibility of use of rejected documents
It is important to note that the HSLC examination was supposed to start on March 3 and end on 20 March as per the original schedule. With questions being raised about multiple examination centres and alleged leaks of question papers, the students and their parents faced serious concerns from the very beginning.
The problems increased when the General Science question paper dated for March 13 was leaked on March 12, leading to the postponement of the examination till March 30 and the subsequent interrogation of the accused hinted at the chances of leaks of the MIL and English (IL) papers scheduled for March 18 till April 1.
Also, the Principal Controller of Examinations for SEBA announced that the English paper on March 28 at the JR Higher Secondary School, Ganirgram as the paper was cancelled amidst reports of widespread malpractices in the examination centre.
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