On the school premises, police personnel kept watch with a “static magistrate” on alert. Unlike last year, when “spotters” hired by touts strolled around to look out for “danger” (surprise inspections), the only people seen this time were farmers heading to their fields on tractors. Inside the centres, and outside: The road to Shri Naval Kishore Inter College at Karanpur, near Agra, was almost deserted on Tuesday.
It’s not a surprise that 10 lakh students dropped out of this year’s state board examination - the world’s largest in terms of the number of examinees, with over 66 lakh appearing for it across some 8,500 centres. Touts are nowhere to be seen and there are CCTVs everywhere, their feeds constantly monitored.
Exam centres across districts have been “sanitized”. The most expensive package, for Rs 15,000, allowed students to mark their attendance and leave while the touts and their agents wrote their papers. While Rs 5,000 was the “fees” for students who wrote their papers with the help of their own cheating material, Rs 10,000 got one a dictation of the correct answers. Sources in the “cheating mafia” had then said each student seeking “help”, offered via different “packages”, paid anything from Rs 5,000 to Rs 15,000.
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AGRA: Exactly a year ago, TOI had reported rampant cheating in the Uttar Pradesh state board exams, with teachers and invigilators not only turning a blind eye to what examinees were doing in classrooms, but also giving a free run to touts, many of whom dictated answers to students through loudspeakers.
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