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BSE employees firm on demand

CUTTACK: The State Board of Secondary Education (BSE) that was getting ready to conduct the matriculation supplementary examination from September 4 is now virtually "defunct" in the wake of the mark scandal issue. Even as School and Mass Education Minister Bishnu Das resigned from his post on Friday, the agitating BSE employees now want that the two key officials of the BSE involved in allegedly increasing the marks of the Minister’s son also removed from their posts.

The agitating employees have locked the rooms of the secretary and controller of the examination for the whole of this week. Secretary Minaketan Pani and controller Manoranjan Swain are not allowed to attend the office. The employees are demanding that these two officials should be immediately removed from the BSE so as to ensure that the examinations conducted by the BSE are done in a fair manner.

"We are in doubt whether the Supplementary examinations could be held as scheduled. Ours is a secretary-oriented office and if the secretary office doesn’t function for a day, movement of over hundred files would stop", says the BSE employees’ association president Gopal Behera.

“In the present context we don’t want that the Supplementary examinations should be held under the supervision of Pani and Swain who are accused in the mark scandal issue,” Behera said. "In the better interest of education in the State, Pani and Swain should be immediately removed from their posts,” the employees demand adding that the two officials should be given exemplary punishment for tarnishing the image of BSE.

Meanwhile, it is learnt that Chief Secretary Ajit Tripthy has completed his investigation into the scandal. "I have completed the probe but the report is likely to be placed before the Chief Minister on Monday", Mr. Tripathy told mediamen in Bhubaneswar on Saturday.

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