Education
Flip-flop show: Bihar Board bans shoes, socks for appearing in Class 10 exams (Lead)
Patna, Feb 21 (IANS) Over 17 lakh students in flip-flops entered the examination centres in Bihar to appear for their Class 10 boards on Wednesday as shoes and socks were banned this year to check rampant cheating activities, an official said.
The Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) in a notification had made it clear that students wearing shoes and socks will not be allowed to enter the examination centres.
Three days after the notification, 17.70 lakh students on Wednesday appeared for the exams at 1,426 centres across the state that will continue till February 28.
There was nothing new to this order though, said BSEB Chairman Anand Kishore, who issued the instructions.
“It is the usual practice in other competitive examinations held in the state. The board decided to adopt the practice from this year,” Kishore said.
The BSEB officials are expecting that the annual examinations this year would be fair and mass cheating would become a thing of the past in Bihar.
Nearly 1,000 students were penalised for cheating during the Class 12 exams that concluded on February 17.
In 2017, the Class 12 Arts stream topper was a 42-year-old man, who was later arrested on charges of faking his age to take the exams.
In 2016, Ruby Rai had topped Class 12 examination conducted by the Bihar State Education Board in Humanities stream. She got into trouble after a sting by a TV channel, which showed her giving ludicrous answers to elementary questions related to her subjects.
Saurabh Shreshtha, Science stream topper of Class 12 in 2016, was also caught on camera giving wrong answers to basic Science questions.
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Education
As many as six new nursing colleges to be functional in Haryana soon
Haryana Chief Secretary Sanjeev Kaushal shared that the construction work of six nursing colleges in the state will be completed soon and classes will commence in the month of July. Not only this, the new building of the National Institute of Fashion Technology, Panchkula has also completed its construction work.
Adding on to this, he shared that, till now, the classes are being held in another building, the chief secretary said while presiding over the review meeting of development projects worth more than Rs 100 crore here.
CHIEF SECRETARY REVIEWED MAJOR PROJECTS
The Chief Secretary reviewed several major projects, including power, health, medical, and technical education in the state, and directed the concerned officials to complete them within the stipulated time period.
COLLEGES UNDER CONSTRUCTION
He said that the construction of nursing colleges in Dherdu village of Kaithal, Khedi Ram Nagar village of Kurukshetra, Kheranwali village of Panchkula, Aura and Dayalpur village of Faridabad, and Sadatpur village of Rewari is under construction.
The construction work of Medical college in Koriawas in Narnaul, Medical College at Jind, Bhiwani, and Dental College at Nalhar is being completed at a fast pace. The work of the second phase of Kalpana Chawla Medical College is also undergoing.