Gujarat girl fails Class 10 due to ‘absence’, CCTV shows she sat for all papers; notice issued to six at exam centre

After her father approached the authorities, Chhota Udepur District Education Officer (DEO) Anand Parmar has issued a notice to six people, including supervisor teachers and the block in-charge, in this regard.

During the probe, it was also found that another student, who had not even appeared for the exam, was marked passed with a 52% score. Authorities are probing all the allegations.

Said Akiksha’s father Tirathsinh: “I was shocked to see that they had marked my daughter as absent. How is that possible when it was I who had dropped her to the exam centre in person?”

According to details received from Ashok Patel, in-charge principal of S B Solanki School at Naswadi in Chhota Udepur, where Akiksha studied, she had appeared for her boards at an examination centre at Adarsh Residential School in the town.

After the results were announced, Akiksha and her father reached her school, contacted the principal and produced her examination hall ticket with signatures of the supervisors and block incharge on it.

The school authorities accepted the complaint application with copies of her hall ticket and contacted the DEO on Friday.

After going through the documents and details, the DEO issued a notice on Saturday to teachers P A Tadvi, D G Gamit, M R Rathwa, G S Chavda, A K Rathwa, and block in charge P V Jani of Adarsh Residential School.

Meanwhile, the principal of Adarsh Residential School, K D Khant, checked the CCTV cameras and found that Akiksha was in the examination room and sat for all the papers.

Sources said that in the notice, DEO Parmar had told the teachers and the block incharge that the girl had failed due to their “negligence and mistake”. The five teachers and block in-charge have been asked to remain present at the DEO office with their explanation on Tuesday afternoon.

“The result would be rectified and the same would reflect in the printed marksheets that would be issued to the students in a couple of days. It would also be fixed online,” said Khant.

“I just want the mistake to be fixed as soon as possible,” said the girl’s father.