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Warning to PU students: Use social media cautiously during exams; possession of paper may result in 5-year jail

coastaldigest.com news network
January 23, 2018

The Department of Pre-University Education (DPUE) is taking all necessary steps to prevent the leakage of question paper and curb the fake question paper mafia that fool students and make money during examination period.

A senior official said that the department will begin to caution students to use social media carefully. It will soon issue a circular asking colleges across the State to conduct parent-teacher meetings to educate them on the consequences of getting involved in paper leakage.

According to the Karnataka Education (Amendment) Act 2017, amended last year, any person involved in buying, selling, or procuring or inducing a person to get the question paper through any means will be penalised. Students possessing the question paper may also land in the soup. The maximum penalty may extend to imprisonment of up to five years or a fine, which may extend to Rs. 5,00,000, or both.

This is for the first time that the rules will be enforced as the amendment came into force midway when the 2017 examinations had commenced.

An official said the purpose of the exercise is to ensure that students are careful.

“Students may get messages on social media, such as WhatsApp, during exam time. We want students to report these matters to their principals, who should in turn, report it to the department so that the authenticity of the papers can be examined. Very often, many of these papers doing the rounds are false ones,” the official added.

Comments

Hari
 - 
Tuesday, 23 Jan 2018

Z+ catagory should arrange for question papers :-P

Danish
 - 
Tuesday, 23 Jan 2018

Whatever be the method, people will find loopholes and leak questions

Ganesh
 - 
Tuesday, 23 Jan 2018

Better to conduct open book exams. 

Kumar
 - 
Tuesday, 23 Jan 2018

Exams should be in online mode

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July 19,2020

Mysuru, Jul 19: Residents in the vicinity of the Chamundeshwari temple alleged VVIP racism against the administration for allowing BJP MP Shobha Karandlaje for a special visit there on Friday.

Even though the district collector had ordered the closure of temple visits due to the COVID pandemic, an exception was made for VVIPs.
The BJP leader claimed that she visited the temple on Thursday evening but the temple officials confirmed that she visited the temple on Friday at 7 am. It is her routine every year to visit the temple on the last Friday of Ashada Masa.

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Mangalore, Jan 4: Writer-Researcher Dr Indira Heggade has been elected as the president of Mangaluru Taluk Sahitya Sammelan, which will be held on January 29 at St Agnes College in the City.

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