Congress urges minister to resign
Demand comes after serious lapses in conduct of Grade 10, 11 and 12 examinations
The Congress-led Kerala Opposition has demanded the resignation of State Education Minister C. Raveendranath after serious lapses surfaced in the conduct of Grade 10, 11 and 12 examinations.
Speaking to reporters here yesterday, leader of the Opposition Ramesh Chennithala said such serious lapses in the conduct of examinations to these classes have never occurred in the history of the state.
“The minister should quit and the state government should order a judicial probe. Already the Garde 10 Maths examination is going to be re-conducted after being cancelled due to lapses in the conduct of the examination.
‘Hijacked’
Not only this, the Garde 11 Geography question paper consisted of 50 per cent out of syllabus questions and the Grade 12 Hindi question paper contained nine mistakes,” said Chennithala.
“I have now been told that the Grade 12 Journalism question paper also had numerous questions that were out of syllabus while the Grade 11 Malayalam question paper had one paragraph written in English,” he added.
The Congress leader said that over the years, the State Council Educational Research and Training was entrusted with the preparation of question papers but this time, it was “hijacked” by the Kerala School Teachers Association (KSTA), which is linked to the CPM.
“It has come to light that several of KSTA members run private tuition centres. Such people have been given the job of preparing the question papers,” he said, adding that till now the state government has suspended only one official for this massive goof-up.