Former PCC president Niranjan Patnaik on Friday reacted strongly to the through mismanagement of all Board examinations by the State Government.
He said, “If every year and all examinations are mismanaged, the problem cannot any longer be treated as isolated or accidental. How can this happen every year and to all examinations, if the Government is seriousIJ The Board of Secondary Education and the Council for Higher Secondary Education have both been thoroughly neglected and epitomise callousness and inefficiency. The Chief Minister is hardly interested in keeping track of higher education in the State. As far as he is concerned, development means one rupee-rice and other vote-gathering
populist sops.”
“In the last five years, students of Odisha have done very badly in the Civil Services Examinations and hardly one or two students from the State are qualifying as against nearly 25-30 students till almost 90s. The middle class prefers CBSE or ICSE, and coaching classes have mushroomed to fill the vacuum created by the Government by their failure to appoint teachers or monitor quality,” Patnaik said.
With what the BJD Government has done to higher education, the next generation would suffer and youths would find it difficult to secure jobs. “Is one rupee-rice scheme an alternative to the failure of the Government to create employability among the youthIJ” Patnaik wanted to know.
“Naveenbabu views everything other than votes in a bureaucratic way, and since he is getting voted he thinks his mal-governance is getting accepted and that is the problem,” Niranjan Patnaik remarked.