Haryana board blocking admit cards of 2 lakh students: Schools

CHANDIGARH: More than two lakh private school students of Class X and XII face the prospect of being denied admit cards for the annual exams to be conducted by the Board of School Education, Haryana (BSEH), according to a federation of private schools in the state.
Federation of Private Schools Management Association president Kulbhishan Sharma on Sunday said they were going to protest at BSEH’s headquarters in Bhiwani on March 1 in case the board did not release the admit cards of the students.

According to Sharma, the board has not released admit cards of 2 lakh students belonging to 901 private schools.
He said this was because the schools had opposed the board’s policy of not allotting any new centre to government schools, but changing the centre for private ones.
Officially, the board has maintained that admit cards would not be allotted to students whose dues have not been cleared or whose schools have not cleared dues. According to Sharma, the situation has come to such a pass due to teachers of private schools not serving duties allotted to them by the board.
The board, initially, slapped a fine of Rs 5,000 on schools whose teachers skipped board duty, but the previous chairperson of the board had waived the fine, said Sharma. He informed that the school board had now decided to impose the fine again.
Sharma said said the present situation had impacted the practical exams of students. In the absence of admit cards, many students could not appear for practical exams on Friday and Saturday, he said.
The final exams are to start on March 3. “All this happened when schools were allotted examination centres.
Students of government schools were given the centre in the school in the same village, while students of private schools of same village were given centres which are 25-30km away. We raised this issue with board chairman and secretary. They not ignored us and also withdrew the decision to waive the Rs,5000 fine,” federation secretary Ram Avtar said.