Scotching all rumours, the Board of Secondary Education (BSE) clarified that no High School Certificate (HSC) Examination question paper was leaked on the first day of the examination on Wednesday.
BSE President Ramashish Hazra said the pictures circulated on social media do not match with that of the original booklet prepared by the Board.
“Some mischievous elements, who are out to defame the Board and at the same time inflicting extreme mental agony on the students are at it again”, Hazra said adding that the Board has taken adequate precautionary measures to ensure that the questions do not get leaked before the examinations.”
“The examination went off smoothly in all the centers barring some minor hiccups. At least 44 students from different districts were booked for “malpractice” as they were caught adopting unfair means during the examination”, s Hazra here after the first day’s examination,” he added.
Examination Controller Nihar Ranjan Mohanty said that strict instructions have been issued to ensure that except the Center Superintendent, nobody carries a mobile phone into an examination center. Even the Center Superintendent is also not allowed to carry phone inside the examination hall, he said.
Earlier in the day, the fortnight-long HSC (Class-X) examinations for Odia medium students, conducted by the BSE in which more than 5.47 lakh students wrote their first paper on the day in about 2,888 examination centers spread across the State.