Education Vijay, The Assam government on Friday, March 4, ordered a CID inquiry into a fire, which broke out in a school in Jorhat town destroying about 600 answer sheets of the ongoing class 10 boards exam conducted by the Secondary Examination Board of Assam (SEBA).
According to PTI, the incident evoked state-wise protests by student organisations, matric examinees and their parents, along with public at large, even as SEBA said that the affected students would need to write the test again, in only one subject within this month.
However, there would be no delay in declaration of results and the board exam results will be declared as per the schedule for awarding the High School Leaving Certificate (HSLC) it further added.
As an irate crowd gheraoed the SEBA office in Guwahati and took out processions and burnt effigies in protest, a senior Jorhat district official claimed the incident to be the handiwork of miscreants.
SEBA said that the incident occurred at a school in the upper Assam town of Jorhat.
Sankardev Seminary School had received 459 packets of answer scripts for safe-keeping and 98 of those were destroyed in the fire, it said. Officials are trying to ascertain which examination centres these answer scripts were collected from.
The affected answer scripts are of the subjects of English, General Mathematics, Assamese MIL, elective papers of Sanskrit, Additional Maths, Geography and Computer Science.
SEBA said that its Examination Committee had decided that the affected examinees may need to take the test again in only one subject within this month.For students not willing to sit for a retest, the average of the marks obtained in the five other major subjects will be taken as the score in the affected script, it said.
Meanwhile, the Jorhat district Deputy Commissioner Solanki Vishal Vasant described the incident as an act of sabotage and revealed that the fire was started by miscreants via a sky window near the table on which the scripts were kept.
He said that the room in which the answer scripts were kept was a "safe one" and ruled out suggestions of a short circuit having caused the fire. A CID inquiry has been ordered into the incident, Vasant said.
Members of the influential All Assam Students Union (AASU) led a gherao of the SEBA head office demanding that it immediately take a call on whether retests would be held for the affected students.
The protesters slammed the officials concerned for their "slackness" and demanded action against anybody found responsible for lapses in the case.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi expressed concern over the incident and asked Additional Chief Secretary, Home, TY Das to constitute a CID probe into the incident, a government release said.
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