UP Board Exams 2020: Tin roofs and CCTVs - rural centres a picture of contrast
A stray dog takes a nap while students write their first examination of UP Board at a centre in Malihabad on Tuesday afternoonLUCKNOW: Tin shed for a roof, no plaster on three walls with a missing fourth, no windows for fresh air and plucked out bricks for ventilation - this is but a classroom at Janta Inter College Khadauha, Malihabad, which has curiously passed muster as a state board exam venue.
Outside, a stray dog steals its forty winks. Inside, a bunch of diligent examinees write endlessly on reams of paper under the strict vigil of closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras. The UP government may have successfully given the board exams a booster dose of technology, but many a school in rural parts of the district are acutely ailing in terms of infrastructure.
If the Janta Inter College classroom resembled a hovel, the building of Mahatma Gandhi Inter College, yet another examination centre, lacked the safety of a boundary wall. Hundreds of students took their first board test in a building hemmed in by farms.
While a temporary barricade prevented vehicles from parking outside the classrooms, outsiders had easy access to students in the absence of a boundary wall. The seating plan was hung on the barricade, again in the absence of a boundary.
The appearance of RDKP Inter College in Maal was no solace either. Students wrote their paper under a tin roof and the walls were without plaster. But, like the other centres, there were surveillance cameras.
District inspector of schools (DIOS) Mukesh Kumar Singh said Maal and Malihabad had very few government cradles. "To ensure that no unfair means are used, we select schools that are either run by the government or are government-aided. These institutions were our only choice," he said.
Singh emphasised that since they were struggling with funds, infrastructure revamp wasn't possible. "But, strict vigil through CCTV cameras, police and invigilators are being kept at the centres to ensure 100% transparency in the conduct of board examinations," he added.
Outside, a stray dog steals its forty winks. Inside, a bunch of diligent examinees write endlessly on reams of paper under the strict vigil of closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras. The UP government may have successfully given the board exams a booster dose of technology, but many a school in rural parts of the district are acutely ailing in terms of infrastructure.
If the Janta Inter College classroom resembled a hovel, the building of Mahatma Gandhi Inter College, yet another examination centre, lacked the safety of a boundary wall. Hundreds of students took their first board test in a building hemmed in by farms.
While a temporary barricade prevented vehicles from parking outside the classrooms, outsiders had easy access to students in the absence of a boundary wall. The seating plan was hung on the barricade, again in the absence of a boundary.
The appearance of RDKP Inter College in Maal was no solace either. Students wrote their paper under a tin roof and the walls were without plaster. But, like the other centres, there were surveillance cameras.
District inspector of schools (DIOS) Mukesh Kumar Singh said Maal and Malihabad had very few government cradles. "To ensure that no unfair means are used, we select schools that are either run by the government or are government-aided. These institutions were our only choice," he said.
Singh emphasised that since they were struggling with funds, infrastructure revamp wasn't possible. "But, strict vigil through CCTV cameras, police and invigilators are being kept at the centres to ensure 100% transparency in the conduct of board examinations," he added.
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