HSC answersheets’ security a worry
The threat by junior college teachers in the city to boycott assessment and moderation work has been giving sleepless nights to college managements. The cause of this anxiety is that the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE), which conducts the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) exams, has asked the management to hold on to the answersheets and keep them in safe custody till the teachers’ problem is resolved by the government.
“We are forced to block one of the classrooms to store the answersheets as they cannot be kept along with answer booklets of other exams. The responsibility also involves taking the blame for damage, loss or theft of answersheets,” said the vice-principal of a college in Bandra.
Amar Singh, president of the Mumbai Junior College Teachers Union said that though they feel bad about holding the HSC examination process to ransom, they have no option,
but to resort to shock treatment to get the government to pay heed to their demands.
“We took back our threat of not conducting the exam after the chief minister assured us that our demands would be looked into by the deputy chief minister. The school education minister too had said that a decision to pay our arrears would be taken by February 21. However, nothing has happened since, and hence, we have decided to boycott assessment and moderation work,” said Mr
Singh.
When contacted, Sarjerao Jadhav, chairman, MSBSHSE said, “We are hoping that the government gets the problem resolved soon, else the results would be delayed.”
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Asst. registrar held for taking bribe
Aftab Khan
Nashik, Feb. 27
An assistant registrar of the Nandgaon tehsil was arrested by the ACB, while taking a bribe of `35,000 from a complainant in the Nandgaon tehsil town of the Nashik district on Tuesday night.
ACB sources said that a Nashik-based businessman, Prashant Shivaji Sanap, had bought land from another businessman Ramchandra Ugle from Astgaon village in Nandgaon Tehsil. Mr Sanap wanted to register his land deal with assistant registrar Suresh Gaikwad. Gaikwad demanded `40,000 as charges for signing the deal. Mr Sanap then filed a complaint with the ACB and gave an advance of `5,000. The remaining amount of `35,000 was paid on Tuesday night,with the ACB waiting outside. When Gaikwad accepted the amount, he was immediately arrested.
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