Education News India | 30-01-2023 | Education News Network | EducationToday



UP Board Exams 2023 UPMSP issues guidelines to prevent cheating
Uttar Pradesh’s Board of Secondary Education has issued a list of guidelines, which include barring invigilators from using mobiles, calculators or any other e-devices, to ensure there is no cheating in the state board exams next month. Fifty per cent of the invigilators at the examination centres will be external and a teacher of the subject for which an exam is being held will not be put on duty, according to the statement by the Uttar Pradesh government issued on Saturday. These follow directives of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for a copying-free board exam. The guidelines also state that no girl examinee will be frisked by a male invigilator. Besides, women invigilators will be deployed at centres where girls are sitting for exams. No teacher shall be appointed at a particular examination centre on his/her request for vested interest, the statement said. According to secretary of the Board of Secondary Education Divyakant Shukla, each examination hall will have two invigilators while those with more than 40 students will have three invigilators, it said.

PM Modi says India’s ‘techade’ dream would be fulfilled by innovators
Expressing optimism that India’s “techade” dream would be realised on the strength of its innovators, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday that domestic patent registrations had outpaced the nation’s overseas patent filings. In the first episode of Mann ki Baat of the new year, the PM claimed that this highlights the nation’s expanding scientific potential. PM Modi has previously used the term “techade” to refer to the decade in which technology predominated and India produced the majority of them. According to him, India ranks fifth in trademark registration while placing seventh globally for patent applications. The Prime Minister noted that India’s patent registration has increased by 50% over the past five years and that the country’s position in the global innovation index has grown from below 80 in 2015 to 40. “I am confident that India’s dream of techade will be fulfilled by its innovators and their patents,” he said. According to PM Modi, the prestigious Indian Institute of Science held a remarkable record in 2022 with 145 patents. In his speech, the PM made note of the fact that in addition to those who have improved the music industry, this year’s Padma awards also recognise a number of tribal people or community activists. He urged people to read the winners’ stories, saying that they will serve as an inspiration to future generations.

Jammu and Kashmir students association demands 5th semester supplementary exam for Cluster University students
The Jammu and Kashmir students association urged Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and Cluster University Srinagar Vice Chancellor Professor Qayyum Husain to conduct the fifth-semester supplementary exam for Cluster University students. The students association has demanded to hold the pending supplementary examination of 2019 batch students who have a backlog and those who couldn’t appear in the exam due to COVID-19 infection.The exam was held in February last year. Despite the university’s promise, the supplementary examination was not conducted. It can result in academic loss for students who want to apply for master’s degrees and other academic degrees if the fifth semester supplementary examination is delayed. Munawar Mehraj, Vice President of the Jammu and Kashmir students association, requested authorities to consider this request on humanitarian grounds, keeping in view the precious career of students and the hardships and difficulties students gone through because of outbreak of lethal covid-19 pandemic. “We request the honorable Lieutenant Governor and the Vice Chancellor, Cluster University to conduct a supplementary examination of fifth-semester (Batch 2019) for students of cluster University who missed it last year,” he added.
Senior citizens write to PM for setting up of CCTV surveillance, public toilets in area outside JNU
Protests at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) have started troubling senior citizens living in Delhi’s Munirka Vihar, not for the noise or the traffic but strangers knocking on their doors to use the washrooms. The lack of public convenience booths in the locality has also resulted in people relieving themselves in the open, causing a foul smell in the entire area, local residents said, claiming that they have approached authorities on several occasions but in vain. The Senior Citizen Forum of the locality has now written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighting the issue, demanding the construction of a public convenience booth to avoid open defecation on Bada Gang Nath Marg near Rock Garden, Munirka, and also the installation of CCTV cameras for security reasons. In the letter dated December 12, 2022, the forum noted that the DDA flats in Munirka Vihar were mostly allotted to central government employees in 1977 and most of the residents now are senior citizens. The situation worsens during protests at the university, which is located just opposite Munirka Vihar, locals claimed. As there is no public convenience booth, police personnel and media persons stationed outside the university often knock on the doors of the people living there while some relieve themselves in the open, they alleged, adding that residents are also concerned about the health impact of the open defecation.
Gujarat junior clerk exam cancelled after question paper leak 1 suspect detained
The Gujarat government’s competitive examination for the recruitment of junior clerks was cancelled hours before it was scheduled on Sunday over its question paper leak and police detained a suspect in this connection, the state panchayat exam board said. As many as 9.5 lakh candidates had registered for the exam for 1,181 posts which was to be held at 2,995 centres across the state. Based on a tip-off, police detained a suspect and recovered a copy of the question paper of the exam early Sunday morning, after which the Gujarat Panchayat website Service Selection Board decided to “postpone” the exam in the wider interest of the candidates, the board said in a statement. The police were investigating the matter, it said. “The junior clerk (administrative/accounting) exam was to be conducted in different districts between 11 am and 12 noon on January website 29. As per the information received from the police early Sunday morning, they detained a suspect and upon his interrogation seized a copy of the question paper from his possession,” the board said in the statement. The board expressed regret for the inconvenience caused to the candidates and informed them not to go to the examination centres. “The examination will be conducted afresh at the earliest, for which the board will issue a new advertisement,” it said. Gujarat Congress spokesperson Manish Doshi claimed this was the 15th government competitive exam which was cancelled in the last 12 years because of question paper leak.

Never take shortcuts exam results not end click here of life PM to students
Never take the shortcut, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in his message to students on Friday, cautioning that cheating may help them in an exam or two but not in the long run and asserting that exam results are not the end of life. The prime minister also advised parents that they should not pressure children due to social status, and asked students to focus on their work to come out of any such burden of expectations. Responding to questions from students during the sixth edition of “Pariksha Pe Charcha”, his annual interaction with students on issues such as exam stress, at the Talkatora Stadium here, he said they should maintain focus on their work. “Life cannot be successful with cheating. You may clear an exam or two but it will remain questionable in life. Hard-working students should not despair at the temporary success of the cheaters and said that hard work will always benefit them in their lives. Exams come and go but life is to be lived fully,” he said. Giving the example of people who cross railway tracks more info to go to another platform instead of taking the foot overbridge, the prime minister pointed out that shortcuts will not take you anywhere and said, “Shortcuts will cut you short.” He also noted that some schools or teachers who run tuition classes strive for unfair means so that their students excel in the exams.”Students should refrain from wasting time in finding ways and preparing cheating material and spend that time in learning. Secondly, in these changing times, when life around us is changing, you have to face exams on every step,” he said as he noted that such people can only clear a few exams but read more eventually fail in life.

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