Exam schedule declared for SSC, other exams

THE LAST date for remittance of examination fee by candidates to headmasters concerned without late fee is February 25. With late fee of `50 it is March 3, March 12 with late fee of `200 and March 16 with late fee of `500.

Director of Government Examinations (DGE) has announced the schedule for SSC, OSSC and vocational public examinations being held in May 2021.

The last date for remittance of examination fee by candidates to headmasters concerned without late fee is February 25. With late fee of `50 it is March 3, March 12 with late fee of `200 and March 16 with late fee of `500.

The last date for remittance of exam fee by headmasters into the sub-treasury of SBI is March 1. With late fee of `50, it is March 4, with late fee of `200 March 12 and with late fee of `500 is March 17.

According to director A. Satyanarayana Reddy, fee for regular candidates for all subjects is `125 and `110 for up to three and less than 3 subjects.

For more than three subjects, the fee is `125. For vocational candidates, fee is `60 in addition to regular examination fee of `125 prescribed for SSC academic courses.

Candidates belonging to SC, ST and BC, who are appearing for SSC examinations for the first time as regular candidates and whose parental income does not exceed `24,000 per annum in urban areas and `20,000 or land holding not exceeding 2.5 acres wet land / 5 acres dry land in rural areas are exempted from payment of examination fee.

At least 46 people including 20 women and 2 children were on Tuesday killed when the bus in which they were travelling fell off a bridge in a canal in Madhya Pradesh’s Sidhi district.

The toll may go up as several other passengers were feared drowned, officials said.

“As many as 46 bodies have been fished out of the water so far. State disaster rapid force and National Disaster Rapid Force personnel are searching for the passengers, feared drowned”, Rewa revenue divisional commissioner Rajesh Kumar Jain, who was supervising rescue operations, told this newspaper.

Of the 46 passengers, 21 have so far been identified, officials said.

According to official sources, the mishap took place when the driver lost control of the bus and plunged it into the canal. The ill-fated bus was travelling from Sidhi to Satna.

It took almost four hours for the rescue team to pull the bus out of water with the help of a crane. While the driver of the bus along with 6 other passengers swam to the shore, several other passengers were feared to have been washed away in the canal. Water from Vansagar dam was diverted to Sihabal dam to bring the water level in the canal down before the rescue operation was launched, sources said.

The cries of relatives who lost their kin rented the air at the site of tragedy. This was said to be the worst bus tragedy witnessed in MP in the last one decade.

Meanwhile, state revenue and transport minister Govind Singh Rajput ordered a magisterial enquiry into the incident.

Chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has expressed shock and grief over the tragedy and announced ex-gratia of `5 lakh each to the next of kin of the deceased.

He canceled all his official programmes including the cabinet meeting, scheduled to be held on Tuesday, to monitor rescue and relief operations from here.

He also rushed two ministers, Tulsi Silawat and Ramkhilwan Patel to the spot. The government has canceled the griha pravesh ceremony to be participated virtually by Union home minister Amit Shah in view of tragedy. The cancelation of the event, in which 1.16 lakh beneficiaries of Prime Minister Awas Yojana were scheduled to be handed over their houses, was announced by the chief minister.