Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao Wednesday ordered free re-verification of answer sheets of all the students who failed in the TSBIE 2019 12th Intermediate examinations.
The decision is taken after a row over the goof-ups by the Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education (TSBIE) in declaring results, which allegedly led to suicide of 10 students since last week and triggered protests by parents and opposition parties.
With two more students ending their lives and protests continuing on Wednesday, the Chief Minister reviewed the situation with senior officials.
In case of students who passed but prefer re-verification and re-counting, it would be done as per the prevailing norms and regulations, the Chief Minister said.
The Chief Minister also asked officials to expedite the re-verification and re-counting process and complete that as early as possible. It should be followed by advanced supplementary examinations to prevent loss of the academic year, he added.
Education Secretary B. Janardhan Reddy has been entrusted with the responsibility of competing the process. The Chief Minister also instructed officials to evolve a strategy for smooth conduct of examinations and evaluation.
Expressing shock over suicides of 'few' students who failed in the intermediate examination, he said it was 'most unfortunate'. He appealed students not to resort to suicide as failing in intermediate examinations did not mean end of life.
Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education (TSBIE) released the results of Telangana State 2019 Intermediate 1st and 2nd year for General as well as Vocational students on Thursday April 18.
According to the 2019 Inter results declared by the Telangana board, the overall pass percentage of TS Inter 1st year is 69.80. Pass percentage of TS Inter 2nd Year is 65%. In terms of numbers, more than 2.7 lakh candidates cleared 2019 TS Intermediate 2nd year exam.
According to a statement from the Chief Minister's office, of the 9.74 lakh students who appeared for the intermediate examinations, 3.28 lakh failed.
"Some students and their parents are of the opinion that during the process of addition of marks, mistakes took place resulting in less marks than expected and hence they failed," it said.
KCR also asked officials to examine whether the responsibility of conducting examinations be entrusted to an autonomous body. "It has to be examined whether the responsibility of conducting examinations could be entrusted to an autonomous body. The best practices in other states and other countries are to be studied for implementing in our state," he said.
"The government faces problems every time intermediate examinations and EAMCET are conducted. The government, students and their parents face trouble every time. This needs to be avoided," KCR said.
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