Probe on into early release of results

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The education department has launched an inquiry into the alleged leak of SSLC results almost half an hour before the formal announcement of the same by education minister C Raveendranath.
Many websites manned by the state public relations department and ‘Saphalam App’ managed by Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE) had published the results before the minister addressed the press and officially announced the results at 2pm on June 30.
“There no question about violation of rules and all. No rules say that the results should be unveiled by the minister and the public should be given access to it only after the formal announcement. But such an act of releasing the same beforehand while a minister responsible for the department is supposed to make a customary public announcement is certainly not in sync with the decorum and it reeks of impropriety. The director of general education has been asked to submit a report explaining what went wrong with the arrangements,” said a source close to the minister.
Insiders claim that those who had managed the websites had got the data only less than three hours before the time fixed for the official announcement.
“Due to this, many were not able to properly manage the data with adeptness such works usually demand,” they said.
The SSLC examination was conducted in two schedules following the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic and the resultant restrictions.
The results of higher secondary examination are expected to be ready by next week.