Forget politics, hold meet of edu ministers, Sisodia tells MHRD
NEW DELHI: Manish Sisodia, the education minister of Delhi, called the CBSE re-examination “an injustice to students for the failure of institution.”
“I think they should have done homework and could have conducted retest on selected centres, instead of so many centres,” he added, when asked about the proposed retest plans.
Sisodia earlier on Friday wrote to Union human resources development minister, Prakash Javadekar, asking him to “immediately convene a daylong brainstorming session of all education ministers, so that we can ensure that such serious incidents do not happen again.”
“This is an issue on which we need to move beyond party politics, because every time an examination paper is leaked — be it CBSE, SSB or DSSSB — the negative consequences are for the country not just for any one government or party. If exam papers are leaked, then undeserving students perform well and hardworking students are left behind. This means that the country gets low quality officials, teachers, doctors and engineers,” he wrote.
He also alluded to t he rumours about more papers — other than the Class 12 economics and Class 10 Mathematics — getting leaked, and said there have been “concerns regarding leaks of several other exams as well.”
Sisodia had earlier taken to Twitter during the Class 12 Accountancy exam stating that he had received complaints about the accounts paper being leaked. Sisodia told HT that he had one complaint from a reporter who had shared images of the allegedly leaked paper, which matched the question paper set by the CBSE.
The CBSE, however, maintained that no leak had taken place and later filed a police com- plaint against unknown persons for “rumour mongering,” thereby creating panic amongst students, teachers and the board.
“Even as secretary, I have been receiving messages that papers are being leaked. In each case, we examine the complaint and in a large number of cases found that the papers purported to have been leaked or purported to have been original papers were not original papers,” said Anil Swarup, secretary, MHRD, on Friday, dismissing fears about other papers being leaked.