Dhanbad: Days after Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das took a dig at the Bihar Board exam scam and welcomed students from Bihar to pursue education in Jharkhand, an unflattering picture of the education system is his state came to light. The photographs show students of the R S More College in Dhanbad openly cheating during their Class XI exams.
Hundreds of students could be seen spread across the lawns of Govindpur’s RS More College writing a Class XI exam paper on July 9 under trees and using unfair means, while no invigilator was present anywhere.
“I have come to know from newspapers about large-scale cheating by students at the examination centre and will take action against people responsible,” Hindustan Times quoted Phool Singh, deputy chairman of Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) as saying.
Meanwhile, a college professor said, “The intermediate examination at the RS More College centre has surpassed the notoriety of the Bihar Examination Board in allowing cheating in examination.”
Some students were also caught copying answers from books while father of an examinee was caught on camera writing answers for his son.
“It is a serious matter and after holding discussions with the JAC chairman (Arvind Prasad Singh), a probe will be conducted and action will be taken,” said Phool Singh.
Taking note of the incident of mass cheating, Gurdeep Singh, vice chancellor of Vinoba Bhave University, to which the RS More College is affiliated, said that he would ask the centre superintendent to give a report on the matter.
Centre superintendent Kiran Singh, who is also the principal of the college, said there was not enough room to accommodate all the students indoor.
“The centre has the capacity of holding examination of 540 students at a time. But on Saturday (July 9) the economics examination of science, commerce and arts streams was held simultaneously that led to overcrowding of the centre,” he said.
After the various cases of cheating in examination in Bihar, including that of Class XII Arts topper Ruby Rai, Raghubar Das had said on June 27 that students of Bihar could study in ‘education hub’ Jharkhand.
