‘Evaluation over, Classes 10, 12 results likely by May-end’: President of Tripura Board of Secondary Education Dhananjoy Gan Choudhury

The TBSE-conducted Higher Secondary (Class 12) examinations were held from March 1 to March 30. The Madhyamik or Class 10 examinations started from March 2 and ended on March 23.

The state education board said that around 33,000 students had appeared for their Madhyamik examinations while over 23,000 students appeared in their higher secondary exams this year.

A year back in 2023, the board examinations saw 43,730 candidates appear for their Class 10 board exams and 38,125 appear for the Higher Secondary board exams.

On why the number fell this year, the state board chief had earlier said that several Tripura schools had been sorted separately under the Vidyajyoti project, which is under the CBSE.

The Madhyamik exams were conducted across 68 centres and the Higher Secondary examinations were conducted across 60 centres across eight districts of the state.

The Tripura state board examinations were conducted amidst heavy controversies this year as the state board chief had gone back on his words thrice over the choice of script for the Kokborok examinations. The state government finally stepped in and said the examinations would be conducted in both Bengali and Roman scripts.

The controversy started after the board president said it would not allow students to write their Kokborok paper answers in Roman script, citing lack of sufficient qualified evaluators. Kokborok is the lingua franca of the majority of the state’s tribal population.

He later said he would allow both scripts in keeping with the tradition of the last 18 years. However, a few hours later, he again went back on his words and said his “higher authorities” had instructed him to allow Roman script alone.

After an indefinite strike across the state and four U-turns, the board finally announced that it would allow both Roman and Bengali scripts.

The issue had seen a political and ethnic storm brew up as the then prime opposition party TIPRA Motha, which is now a partner of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in state government, had threatened to stall normal life in the state if both the scripts aren’t allowed.