Tamil Nadu: Edappadi teachers in soup as student tampers Class X marksheet

SALEM: Tampering of the provisional marksheet by a Class X student to get admission in Class XI has landed education department officials and teachers of a government higher secondary school in Edappadi in deep trouble.
The state government recently ordered to consider 50% of Class X marks, 20% of Class XI marks and 30% of Class XII internal marks to allot final marks for Class XII students.
“We learned that the student had failed in English subject in the Class X board examination held in the 2018-19 academic year,” an official from the education department said.
According to the officer, the boy failed in English subject by securing 31 marks out of 100 in the Class X board examination. But he tampered the marksheet and changed it into just pass mark of 35.
While checking the marks of Class XII students of the academic year 2020-21 to allot final marks as prescribed by the state government, the teachers found that the student had failed in English but was admitted in Class XI. They immediately alerted chief educational officer (CEO) T Ganesh Moorthy, who directed officials for an inquiry.
When contacted by TOI, the CEO said that he had informed the directorate office to delete the student’s name from the Class XI and XII examination lists. “We will not issue the certificates to the student,” he said. He said that he would take necessary action against the schoolteachers who failed to notice the tampering of the marksheet. The CEO said due to the continuous holidays because of Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and this year, the teachers failed to check the marksheets.