Guwahati: Even as scholar organisations are mounting strain on the Board of Secondary Education Assam (Seba) chairperson and retired IAS officer, RC Jain, to step down after the category X Board examination query paper leaked, prime official sources within the board stated he is not going to step down voluntarily.
A Seba supply stated Jain’s second time period because the chairman will finish in 2024 and he’ll proceed within the submit except the federal government doesn’t take away him. He has been holding the highest submit within the board for the final a number of years. Prior to his retirement from authorities service in 2018, he was the chairperson in-charge. “This is his second consecutive term as a full-fledged chairperson. Each term is of three years,” stated a Seba insider.
Even as a state civil service officer has at present been appointed because the Seba secretary, board insiders stated the chairperson’s position has been supreme as far as taking coverage selections are involved. Seba officers, nevertheless, claimed that they weren’t liable for the paper leak, asserting it should have taken place after the query paper packets have been handed over to the examination centre in-charges.’
Leading scholar organisation All Assam Students’ Union (Aasu) has upped the ante primarily in opposition to Jain and controller of examination NJ Sarmah. Police have questioned Sarmah and the principal controller of examinations, J Kakati Saikia, in connection to the paper leak.
On Wednesday, Aasu protested statewide by burning in effigies schooling minister Ranoj Pegu, Jain and Sarmah. “Why is the Seba chairperson, who retired from government service long ago, still serving in the top post of Seba? He must take the responsibility for the exam fiasco and resign. Exam controller must be arrested because it is not for the first time that such an incident has happened under him,” stated Aasu chief Utpal Sarma.
A Seba supply stated Jain’s second time period because the chairman will finish in 2024 and he’ll proceed within the submit except the federal government doesn’t take away him. He has been holding the highest submit within the board for the final a number of years. Prior to his retirement from authorities service in 2018, he was the chairperson in-charge. “This is his second consecutive term as a full-fledged chairperson. Each term is of three years,” stated a Seba insider.
Even as a state civil service officer has at present been appointed because the Seba secretary, board insiders stated the chairperson’s position has been supreme as far as taking coverage selections are involved. Seba officers, nevertheless, claimed that they weren’t liable for the paper leak, asserting it should have taken place after the query paper packets have been handed over to the examination centre in-charges.’
Leading scholar organisation All Assam Students’ Union (Aasu) has upped the ante primarily in opposition to Jain and controller of examination NJ Sarmah. Police have questioned Sarmah and the principal controller of examinations, J Kakati Saikia, in connection to the paper leak.
On Wednesday, Aasu protested statewide by burning in effigies schooling minister Ranoj Pegu, Jain and Sarmah. “Why is the Seba chairperson, who retired from government service long ago, still serving in the top post of Seba? He must take the responsibility for the exam fiasco and resign. Exam controller must be arrested because it is not for the first time that such an incident has happened under him,” stated Aasu chief Utpal Sarma.
