SEB proposes jail term for abettors of malpractices

The proposal will go to the Government for approval and to change the law. Presently, the SEB rules apply only on the students and the maximum punishment is that they are barred from appearing in examinations for four trials.

The proposal is part of a series of measures being implemented by the SEB to make the examinations more clean. This year the Board introduced bar coding for all HSC and SSc examinations and a round robin method of answerpaper checking where one teacher corrects one answer so that the answerpaper is corrected by six examiners.

The SEB is contemplating a proposal to abolish the October examinations and replace them with supplementary examinations. In March, 1999, students will be given multiple question papers with no two students sitting next to each-other having the same paper. This measure has also been introduced to check malpractices.

Besides, the board has asked asked the district education officers to issue notice to the schools which have not yet submitted bio-data of their teachers. The board had sought the details so that it can select teachers for examination work.

Meanwhile, students belonging to the National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) have submitted a memorandum to Gujarat University Registrar M P Jadia, seeking general option in all the papers during the March/April examinations.

The students wanted to submit the memorandum to either vice-chancellor In-charge H M Desai or pro vice-chancellor K S SHastri but both were not available.