Going beyond the normal exam manual, Bhind district in Madhya Pradesh has issued a bizarre order asking private tutors to remain in police stations when the class XII MP Board exams remain underway in the district.
Along with neighbouring Morena, Bhind district has been a hub for cheating mafia activities for years despite administration and MP Board of Secondary Education making hectic efforts to curb the disgraceful menace.
However, this time round the local administration seems to have enough of this problem as District Education Officer Bhind before the commencement of the class XII board exam on Thursday, issued an interesting order. The order addressed to Block Education Officer had ordered to prepare /publish a list of private tutors after a due permission from the Sub Divisional Magistrate, publish these lists.
The order also instructed BEOs to ensure presence of these tutors in police stations when the exam is underway on specified dates.
Sources claimed that a list of around 150 such tutors was prepared by the local administration apparently for being suspicious of helping students in the past in mass copying. The administration reportedly has scanned the cheating incidents and the ‘culprits’ since year 2016.
DEO Haribhuvan Singh Tomar who apparently started dodging the media after the order drew flak, speaking to a Hindi daily had said that they aimed to prevent tutors from getting involved in cheating cases so this plan was prepared for keeping tutors under ‘preventive detention’ for five hours on exam days starting from Thursday.
Superintendent of Police Bhind Shailendra Singh Chuahan said that the plan prepared with Dept of School Education aims at preventing tutors from engaging in any activity which abets cheating.