School and Mass Education Minister Badri Narayan Patra on Thursday “clarified” that High School Certificate (Matriculation) examination question papers getting viral on social media would have no effect on the ongoing examination process.
Speaking to media here, Patra said, “Candidates are thoroughly being checked before entering the examination halls. Body-frisking and ban on entry of mobile phones in the examination centres are strictly being followed. Despite this, if question papers go viral on social media in the last minutes or during conduct of the examinations, it is no way affecting the entire examination process.”
He said action is being taken against the students involved in malpractices and examinations are being cancelled at the centres where mass copy is reported.
“Invigilators have been properly trained on how to distribute the question papers. Four parallel question papers are there; and Invigilators have been instructed to distribute separate question papers on a single row. If there is irregularity in distribution of question papers, we will look into it. We will evaluate the OMR sheets manually,” the Minister added.