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Five jail inmates to take Matriculation exam

CUTTACK: The Board of Secondary Education (BSE) will open examination centres in Berhampur and Phulbani jails for the ensuing Matriculation examination to be held from March 26. Five inmates -- two convicts and three undertrial prisoners -- of these two jails are getting ready to take the examination.

“We have made all arrangements for these two examination centres. Teachers of the nearby high schools will be deployed as invigilators while the respective jail superintendents will act as centre superintendents,” said BSE secretary Prashant Kumar Samal. While only one undertrial prisoner in Phulbani jail would appear for the examination in ex-regular stream, four inmates of Berhampur jail would take the examination in both regular and ex-regular stream, he added.

Dilip Kumar Sahu and M .Balprasad, serving life sentence in two separate murder cases, would appear the examinations in regular stream while undertrial prisoners -- Budhia Sethy and Rabindranath Das -- who earlier unsuccessfully appeared the examination, were ex-regular candidates, said Berhampur jail welfare officer Subash Chandra Pradhan.

“All the four jail inmates are preparing seriously for the examination, while the jail teacher and some warders are also helping them in their preparation,” Mr. Pradhan said that even some other educated jail inmates are were helping them. The jail authorities procured books, test papers and other study material for them. Similarly, Bibhisan Kahanr, an undertrial prisoner in Phulbani jail, is also getting ready for the matriculation examination. As many as 11 jail inmates appeared for last year’s matriculation examination in different jails of the State and four of them cleared it successfully.

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