Tuesday 24 November 2015

Examiner behind wrong evaluation of Adnan Hilal”s  paper declared 'deadwood'

Secretary SBOTE and Deputy Registrar have been shifted to non sensitive postings:-Ansari

Beig Shamim Ahmed :-Reports reached to INB News that following the suicide by an engineering student for “scoring low” marks, the government has declared the examiner as “deadwood” and has ordered his “compulsorily” retirement.
In press conference at his Qamarwari residence in Srinagar Minister for Information and Technology Imran Raza Ansari said he has directed the technical Education Department to initiate strict possible action against the delinquent lecturer and declare the officer as dead wood and compulsorily retire him from his service.

According to reports reached to INB news that An electronics engineering student, Muhammad Adnan s/o HilalHilal Ahmed Gilkar, of Nowgam, to end his life on June 18 this year by wrongly declaring him fail in Physics paper.After seeing his result, Adnan had committed suicide. . Four months after Adnan’s death, re-evaluation of the paper reveals that Adnan had not only passed in the subject but also topped his class,” the students said INB. 
“The original answer booklet of Physics paper was also reassessed by the enquiry officer thourgh a subject expert who said that Adnan has scored 48 marks out of 100,” he said.
The minister told to our Bureau Chief J&K Beig Shamim Ahmed that he also directed his department to take action against the officers of the State Board of Technical Education (SBOTE) for alleged negligence and in the first instance Secretary SBOTE and Deputy Registrar have been shifted to non sensitive postings.Meanwhile a committee is being constituted headed by Director Technical Education to study the present evaluation systembeing foolowed in SBOTE and suggest the measures to be taken for the improvement in the conduct of examinations,evaluation process and allied activities so that the entire working of SBOTE is revamped standardized and made more transparent and accountable in future.
“The overall supervision of the evaluation was the responsibility of the board officers,” the minister said, adding action as per rules will be taken against them.
The minister has also ordered to study the present evaluation system being followed in SBOTE for improving it

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