In order to maintain transparency in the State’s education and to get rid of education mafias, chairperson of Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) Anand Bhushan on Friday brought out a list of accused staff against whom show-cause notices will be issued by the Jharkhand Academic Council.
“This is type of decision is necessary in order to maintain accuracy and transparency in the education system. Such strict action will create threat among the wrong doers and will be a lesson for rest of the people who in future will not do anything against the law and system,” said Bhushan.
During the college inspections it came into limelight that few people of Nala Inter College located in Jamatara District were involved in forgery. Around 60 and more copies of physics and mathematics were written in the same handwriting. The First Information Report (FIR) has also been filed against the accused. The main culprit Vikram Mandal has yet not been tracked and the enquiry is still going on in the case, informed sources.
Jharkhand Academic Council had taken a strict action against Nala Inter College and in future the college will be not allotted any examination centers.
As many as 298 people involve in corrupt practices in the examination pattern were penalized by the authorities, whereas 256 accused persons have been given warning, 17 accused staffs were reprimanded, 10 have been blacklisted for 3 years and 15 accused involved in corruption were debarred from the examination duty for entire life.
The JAC Chairman due to retire next week said that the council crossed several milestones to achieve several targets and making JAC one of the best governing bodies in the state education.
In order to make the system more students friendly several online provisions have been made. Now a candidate can register or alter changes in subjects, name and date of birth with just a click. Intermediate candidates and middle schools candidate can download the entrance card from the internet itself.
For the first time the intermediate examination was conducted in stitched answer sheets to avoid any mayhem. In the evaluation centres the online provisions were made to examine the answer sheet. likewise, the evaluation of intermediate vocational examination 2015 answers sheets were also done with the help of computer. Even the intermediate results of all the three streams were published within the time frame.
Teachers training test were also conducted on time in order to conduct the session regularly. In order to guide and train students for various competitive examinations the JAC organised workshop with the administrative level officials and few selected teachers, with this Jharkhand became the first State to conduct such training programme.
“I have tried to make things easier and better during my tenure. My aim was to maintain full transparency in the education system. Digitalisation is a big step towards it,” Bhushan said.