Satish Aditrya
Motihari : On the first day of Intermediate Examination on February 1, 2022, in East Champaran District in North Bihar, around 400 girls examinees were forced to write their Hindi paper under the light of government vehicles at Maharaja Harendra Kishor College Centre, Motihari town, as the second sitting of examination started at 4.30 pm .The electricity supply had failed and the second sitting of the examination was scheduled to start at 1.45 pm started at 4.30 pm exposing the mismanagement at the examination centre.
Sanjay Kumar, District Education Officer (DEO), aid that the Centre Superintendent has been changed a new examinationSsuperintendent has taken charge of the exam centre . Actually, the first sitting started at 9.30 am and ended at 12. 45 pm but the second sitting could not start in time as the girl students were not ready to sit in dark room where visibility was not proper due to cold wave co ndition. This centre has generator as stand by but it was not functioning properly.This second sitting finally ended at 9 pm.
Large numbers of guardians and examinees had assembled at examination centre and were shouting slogans against mismanagement at centre . DM Shirshat Kapil Ashok,,SDM Suman Saurabh, and SDPO Arun Kumar Gupta, with police forcereached at centre and controlled the situation. The DM asked the DEO to take action against the Cntre Superintendent immediately and start the second sitting. He asked the DEO to provide power supply with new generator .