Guwahati: The reported leak of common science query paper of Class X state board examination has solid aspertions on board officers answerable for sealing the query paper packets, in addition to the safety mechanism at police stations, the place the papers had been saved weeks earlier than the graduation of the examination.
Sources within the Board of Secondary Education Assam (Seba) stated the query papers had been printed in a press exterior the state, like within the earlier years, with a perception that folks within the printing press there received’t have any curiosity in leaking the query papers of the state board. Even as Seba officers handed the buck on the police below whose custody the papers had been saved, the police stated the case can be resolved quickly.
“The role of everyone, starting from those who had set the questions to the officers, will be probed,” Assam Police spokesperson and IGP (regulation and order) Prasanta Bhuyan instructed the media right here on Monday.
A board member at Seba instructed TOI that the query papers had been despatched to totally different police stations throughout the state at the least a few weeks previous to the graduation of the examination. In among the police stations, query papers that had been meant to be distributed to a number of close by examination centres had been additionally stocked.
“Once the question papers reach the police stations near the exam centres, Seba heaves a sigh of relief because there is no other way to get access to the papers. The soft copies of question papers saved in the computer systems at the printing press are usually destroyed after the printed copies are out,” a supply in Seba stated.
The supply added that utmost confidentiality is maintained all through the printing course of and just a few senior officers within the board are conscious of the printing mechanism. The bundles are then despatched to totally different police stations within the districts below the custody of board officers until these are handed over to the police.
With one query paper leaked, Seba sources, nevertheless, stated there are a few query papers of common science that had been saved as a again up in case of a leak. “It is just a matter of time. We just need to print one of the already set papers that were kept as back up,” the supply added.
Sources within the Board of Secondary Education Assam (Seba) stated the query papers had been printed in a press exterior the state, like within the earlier years, with a perception that folks within the printing press there received’t have any curiosity in leaking the query papers of the state board. Even as Seba officers handed the buck on the police below whose custody the papers had been saved, the police stated the case can be resolved quickly.
“The role of everyone, starting from those who had set the questions to the officers, will be probed,” Assam Police spokesperson and IGP (regulation and order) Prasanta Bhuyan instructed the media right here on Monday.
A board member at Seba instructed TOI that the query papers had been despatched to totally different police stations throughout the state at the least a few weeks previous to the graduation of the examination. In among the police stations, query papers that had been meant to be distributed to a number of close by examination centres had been additionally stocked.
“Once the question papers reach the police stations near the exam centres, Seba heaves a sigh of relief because there is no other way to get access to the papers. The soft copies of question papers saved in the computer systems at the printing press are usually destroyed after the printed copies are out,” a supply in Seba stated.
The supply added that utmost confidentiality is maintained all through the printing course of and just a few senior officers within the board are conscious of the printing mechanism. The bundles are then despatched to totally different police stations within the districts below the custody of board officers until these are handed over to the police.
With one query paper leaked, Seba sources, nevertheless, stated there are a few query papers of common science that had been saved as a again up in case of a leak. “It is just a matter of time. We just need to print one of the already set papers that were kept as back up,” the supply added.
