Bengaluru: In order to stop students from cheating during examination, a pre-university college in Karnataka forced about 50 students to wear cartons to avoid copying. The incident has been reported from Bhagat Pre-University College in Haveri.
Images of the incident soon made their way online and that sparked a laughing riot among people – especially on Twitter.
Haveri is 335 km from Bengaluru in the state’s northwest region.
Karnataka: Students were made to wear cardboard boxes during an exam at Bhagat Pre-University College in Haveri, reportedly to stop them from cheating. (16.10.2019) pic.twitter.com/lPR5z0dsUs
— ANI (@ANI) October 18, 2019
The shocking incident, which took place on Wednesday, came to light when a video clip showing students of the co-educated private college writing the exams wearing cartons ostensibly to prevent them copying went viral on the social media Friday.
The students were writing papers in economics and chemistry subjects as part of the mid-term exams, conducted in their classroom.
No more thinking "out of the box" 😂😂
— Aarohi Tripathy 🇮🇳 (@aarohi_vns) October 18, 2019
Meanwhile Students :👇 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/HXVolNLfxu
— 𝓜𝓲𝓷𝓲𝓮𝓮 𝓢𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓶𝓪 (@_Miniworld1) October 18, 2019
Kids write school exams
Adults write Board exams
Legends write cardboard exams
— Sagar (@sagarcasm) October 18, 2019
When your teacher is fan of marshmallow😁
— Gaurav Ghatole (@GauravGhatole) October 18, 2019
Teacher be like:
Kitna maza aara hai. Ab me aaram se soo sakti hu. pic.twitter.com/16DMC1kY8o
— Pratik Modi🇮🇳 (@pratikmodi2) October 18, 2019
https://twitter.com/Manoj_kumar_saw/status/1185238249670729728
“Whatever be the purpose, they (students) cannot be made to wear cartons for writing exams. There is no rule or advice from us,” said the official.
The front side of the cartons were, however, were cut for the students to breathe and see but not peep left or right to see the answer sheets of the other students seated on the same bench.
Reacting to the incident, state Education Minister S. Suresh Kumar said that such an attempt was not acceptable.
“Nobody has any right to treat anybody more so students like animals. This perversion will be dealt with aptly,” tweeted Kumar. Before knowing how tweeple reacted, take a look at the images shared on Twitter.
