Left-out class 10th students can write remaining papers: Sakina Itoo

Srinagar, Feb 19: The education minister Sakeena Itoo on Wednesday said the left out students of class 10th who could not write their first paper of Board exams will be allowed to write the remaining papers.

In an exclusive conversation with Greater Kashmir, Sakeena Itoo said that the students who were left behind and could not sit in the exam centres for the first paper met her on Tuesday.

"These innocent students met yesterday and started crying because they missed the exam. Either it was a mistake of the students or it was the fault of the school. In some schools they have done some doubling and in some cases some clerical mistakes have happened because of which they were not allowed to sit in the exam," education minister told Greater Kashmir.

She said that the number of the students who faced the issue was around 24 to 25 and are mostly enrolled in private schools.

"I don't know these schools run their system," she said.

She said that ahead of exams she convened a meeting of CEOs and ZEOs of government schools a month ago and passed strict instructions that the students should not face any problem during exams.

"I told them that if there is any student who has not applied for exams or any students whose form has not been sent by the concerned school, I will fix the responsibility on the school," Itoo said.

The minister said that all the students who faced issues and could not appear in the first paper, all of them will write all the remaining papers.

"I have told the chairman about it. The students will be allowed to sit in the examination centres in all the remaining papers," she said.

Asked about the government priorities after the reopening of the schools post winter vacations, the education minister said that the government is already working on bringing positive changes in the syllabus by including new relevant topics.

"There are many things in the syllabus that need to be included. I have already made a committee of subject experts for this who will submit their report and on the basis of that new topics will be added in the syllabus," the education minister told Greater Kashmir.

She said that the same old things were being taught to the students while there are some new things like traffic rules which need to be included in the syllabus of the students.