Intermediate public examinations began amid complaints of lack of proper furniture and other amenities in several centres in tribal sub-plan mandals in the district on Monday. As many as 26,737 students appeared for the examination on day one of the IPE-2015 in the district.
A total of 2,904 students were absent for the examination on the first day. Sources said that students faced severe ordeal at the designated examination centre in Tekulapalli mandal headquarters due to shortage of furniture.
Around 60 students had to take the examination sitting on the floor in the centre.
Several students were reportedly compelled to write the examination by sitting on the floor at the examination centre in Government Junior College in Gundala mandal headquarters in Kothagudem division.
Students had a tough time in writing the examination due to severe inconvenience caused due to lack of adequate benches and desks as well as space constraints in the centre, sources added.
Cases of malpractice
Karimnagar Special Correspondent adds: Two cases of malpractices have been reported from Koheda and Dharmapuri mandal centres in Karimnagar district.
Against a total of 50,655 students including 45,233 regular and 5,422 vocational, 46,067 had appeared for the examinations. A record number of 4,588 students including 3,542 regular students and 1,046 vocational students had abstained from examinations. Two malpractices were reported from Telangana State Social Welfare Residential Junior College in Koheda and the Government junior college in Dharmapuri temple town.
73 centres in Nizamabad
Nizamabad Special Correspondent addsOut of 30,947 students who applied for the first year second language examination 28,826 appeared and 2,121 were absent. Only two malpractice cases were booked, according to A. Vijayakumar, Regional Intermediate Officer.
To control malpractices, twelve special teams were constituted and Section 144 was clamped at all centres. Every examination centre is linked with the Board of Intermediate through the GPRS reading system.
Owners of all Xerox centres were given instructions to close them during the exam timings every day and the use of mobile phones except by the chief superintendent was prohibited. All necessary facilities such as drinking water, ORS packets and deployment of medical employees with the help of DMHO were ensured, said Mr. Vijayakumar.
