Bhubaneswar: The protest against alleged discrepancies in CBSE Class-XII results intensified Wednesday with students’ wings of various political parties joining the stir, even as a team from the board’s headquarters arrived here to sort out the issue. The Board officials said the issue will be resolved within 15 days.
Activists of Biju Chhatra Janata Dal (BCJD) and National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) joined the protest outside the CBSE’s regional office here.
As the slogan-shouting demonstrators holding placards and banners demanded immediate re-evaluation of answer-sheets and declaration of withheld results, some NSUI workers tried to forcibly enter the premises of the CBSE regional office.
A brief scuffle ensued when the policemen present stopped the activists from entering the office. Demanding immediate steps to resolve the issue, NSUI activists burnt tyres and an effigy of Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar.
Meanwhile, two senior officials from the CBSE’s head office, who were deputed by Javadekar to sort out the issue, held discussions with officials of the Board’s regional office.
The problem of the students would be looked into by 10 teams to be formed at the board’s regional centres, a CBSE official said.
Surendra Das, convener of Class XII Parents’ Association, who met the members for the closed-door meeting along with other parents and students, said the members had vowed to take the matter to the HRD ministry and try to resolve the matter.
Steps have been taken to resolve the issue in 15 days, said CBSE assistant secretary Jagabandhu Pradhan. He, however, made it clear that there was no provision of re-evaluation of papers and only photocopies of answer-sheets can be provided to the students who make a request for the same.
Later in the evening, the students and their parents met Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. Scores of students from schools under the Bhubaneswar region of the CBSE had alleged that they had secured poor marks due to faulty evaluation, while many others claimed their results were withheld without citing any reason.
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