UP PCS prelims 2020: Over 18,000 candidates fail to correctly submit forms - education

Over 18,000 aspiring PCS officers in the state failed to properly fill in and submit their recruitment exam forms correctly.

Of the total over 5.95 lakh applicants wishing to appear in combined state/upper subordinate services (preliminary) examination-2020, commonly known as PCS (pre)-2020, held along with the examination for recruitment of assistant conservator of forest (ACF) and range forest officer (RFO), 18,235 have made errors in filling in their forms online, shared Prayagraj-headquartered Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC).

Some have failed to upload the proper specified sized photographs while many have uploaded their photographs upside down. There are still others who have failed to counter sign the photographs uploaded by them as required while some have completely failed to upload their photographs, UPPSC officials shared.

“Post scrutiny of all 5,95,696 forms, the commission has released a list of 18,253 names of candidates who have made one or the other error in their forms on its official website https://uppsc.up.nic.in/. For the benefit of the candidates, they have now been given an opportunity till June 12 to correct their errors,” said UPPSC secretary Jagdish.

Officials said a possible reason for the errors in filing in the forms could be the fact that usually candidates rely on various cyber cafes for filling in the online forms.

However, the application process PCS (pre)-2020 exam was started on April 21 when most of the cyber cafes were shut owing to the lockdown.

As a result, the candidates were forced to fill in and submit the forms on their own and ended up making these mistakes, they added.

UPPSC controller of exams Arvind Kumar Mishra said of the 18,253 candidates who made errors in their online application forms, 7,504 have to sign and upload their photographs while another 5,867 uploaded photographs with various other errors like incorrect direction or poor clarity scans etc. Remaining candidates uploaded photographs of improper sizes, he explained.

Initially the deadline to apply for the exam was May 21 which was extended till June 4.

The recruitment exams were scheduled to be conducted on June 21 but were postponed till further notice due to Covid-19 pandemic. New date will be intimated as soon as it was finalised, said UPPSC controller of exams Arvind Kumar Mishra.

The UPPSC recruitment drive is being conducted to fill 200 vacancies of PCS officers, ACF and RFO. However, the number can be increased later.

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HBSE 10th Result 2020: Haryana Board class 10 results will not be declared today - education

The Board of Secondary Education, Haryana (BSEH) will not declare the Haryana Board Class 10th results on Monday. In a press note released on Sunday evening, the board said that the results of the Class 10 examinations in the state, which were to be declared on June 8, have been postponed.

Haryana Board Chairman Jagbir Singh had earlier informed that BSEH will declare the Class 10 results on Monday, June 8.

Informing about the decision to not declare the Haryana board Class 10 results on Monday, Board chairman Jagbir Singh and BSEH secretary Rajiv Prasad said that in accordance with the direction of the Haryana education department, the class 10 results will now be declared after the conduct and evaluation of science paper. They further said that passing in science paper of Class 10 examinations is compulsory for students who opt for science stream in Class 11 for further studies.

“We will announce results after students opting for medical and non-medical stream in Class 11 appear for their pending science exam. Other students’ results will be evaluated on the basis of average marks scored by them in the four exams that they had appeared for,” the board chairman said.

The Haryana board had postponed the class 10 and 12 examinations on March 19 in the wake of the coronavirus disease outbreak. Nearly 7.41 lakh students have registered for class 10 and 12 board exams in Haryana.

The class 10 students have appeared for English, mathematics, social sciences and Hindi exams while science and an optional exam of physical education/ Sanskrit/ fine arts/ music, etc, are still pending.

(With inputs from HT correspondent in Haryana)

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UP school teacher reportedly working in 25 schools simultaneously arrested - education

The Uttar Pradesh school teacher, reportedly working simultaneously in 25 schools and earning over Rs 1 crore as salary in 13 months, was arrested in Kasganj on Saturday, police said.

Anamika Shukla was arrested when she had gone to the office of Basic Shiksha Adhikari Anjali Agarwal to tender her resignation fearing arrest after her fraud was reported in the media.

The BSA called the police and got Shukla arrested.

“A notice was sent to Anamika Shukla after we found that the documents are listed for multiple postings. She came to our office to submit resignation. She was handed over to the police,” Agarwal said.

Police said Shukla told them she got the job on paying a bribe of Rs 1 lakh.

After the matter was reported, the state government ordered Additional Director, Basic Education, to probe the matter.

“Nothing has been confirmed so far. Name of a lady teacher has come to the fore… She is absconding now,” Director General, School Education, Vijay Karan Anand had said.

According to the reports, Shukla worked in over 25 schools and drew a total salary of over Rs 1 crore in 13 months.

There are allegations that she worked as a science teacher in Kastruba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya in Ambedkar Nagar, Baghpat, Aligarh, Saharanpur, Prayagraj and other places.

KGBV teachers are appointed on contract and get Rs 30,000 pay.

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UP 69,000 Basic Teachers Recruitment: Govt challenges single-bench order halting selection process - education

The Uttar Pradesh government has challenged a single-bench order staying the appointment process of 69,000 assistant basic teachers in the state.

The special appeal has been listed for June 9 before a division bench, comprising justices Pankaj Jaiswal and Dinesh Kumar Singh. It has been filed by the Examination Regularity Authority (ERA) on behalf of the state.

In its appeal, the ERA has said the single-judge bench order was unwarranted and illegal.

The bench of Justice Alok Mathur on June 3 had stayed the selection process, prima facie finding that certain questions and answers were ambiguous and wrong and, hence, it required fresh scrutiny by the UGC.

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Stop private tuition, or else leave jobs, Tripura govt warns school teachers - education

Terming the private tuitions done by the government school teachers as ‘objectionable’, the Tripura government warned them to stop private tuitions immediately or else, leave the job.

“Several notices were served earlier to restrain the private tuitions by the government teachers since 1996. Even the High Court ordered to ban private tuitions done by the government, its aided and private schools in 2015. We favour the High Court decision. We will not allow the government teachers to continue private tuition as it is objectionable and we will start conducting raid from June 08. If they desire to earn extra money, they can leave the government job and continue their private coaching,” Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath told the mediapersons on Saturday late evening.

As a measure against the widespread private tuitions, the High Court of Tripura banned private coaching by government and its aided schools along with private schools teachers in 2015.

The private schools teachers could do private tuitions only if they are ready to impart tuitions to students above 14 years of age and if they belong to other schools except their own schools as per High Court verdict.

The teachers could not impart coaching to students less than 14 years of age as it would violate Right to Education Act,the minister added.

The minister also said that some professional private tutors are continuing their tuitions without following social distancing norms. “We have specific information that there are teachers from government and it’s aided and private schools, doing private tuitions violating the High Court verdict. We have also learnt that there are some teachers who are not maintaining social distancing,” he said.

He later informed that the government released offers for 84 graduate teachers’ post and 75 for undergraduate teachers’ post in last April. Of them, 69 submitted their offers for graduate teachers’ post and 33 for the undergraduate teachers’ post so far.

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UP Assistant Teacher Recruitment 2020: Row erupts as candidate with upper caste surname tops in OBC category - education

A controversy erupted after the marksheet of a supposedly Other Backward Class (OBC) candidate, Archana Tewari, went viral on the social media for having secured the highest marks in the written test for recruitment of 69,000 assistant teachers in primary schools in the OBC category in the state. The row prompted the Uttar Pradesh Basic Shiksha Parishad to issue a clarification on Sunday.

The controversy arose as Tewari is usually reckoned as an upper caste surname but the candidate in question had filled in her application in the OBC category.

“Caste details are filled by candidates while applying for recruitment and the results are declared based on it. It is during counselling that the candidate has to prove his or her eligibility to claim the benefits of reservation,” said Anil Kumar, deputy secretary, Uttar Pradesh Basic Shiksha Parishad, Prayagraj.

The Allahabad high court had stayed the recruitment process of 69,000 assistant teachers on June 3, prima facie finding that certain questions and answers were ambiguous and wrong and, hence, it required fresh scrutiny by the UGC.

The stay order came on the first day of counselling during which candidates’ documents were to be verified.

Since then, the Uttar Pradesh government has challenged the single-bench stay order. The special appeal has been listed for June 9 before a division bench, comprising justice Pankaj Jaiswal and justice Dinesh Kumar Singh. It has been filed by the Examination Regularity Authority (ERA) on behalf of the state. In its appeal, the ERA has said the single-judge bench order was unwarranted and illegal.

For its part, the UP basic education department, Prayagraj has approached the cyber cell in Lucknow “to deal with fake information about the selection being spread on social messaging sites”.

An official said no comment on the woman’s caste can be made as it was inappropriate. Moreover, her documents indicated she belonged to the Gosai Samaj that was in the OBC category and members of Gosai community used a second name like Tewari and Mishra, an official said.

Irrespective of surname, if a candidate (in this case the woman) belongs to a reserved caste and proves it during the counselling where all the documents are verified, then he/she gets the benefit, or else her candidature is cancelled, an official said.

Kumar explained that the candidates who applied for 2019 examination filled in all the information in the form on their own. The candidates’ forms are verified during counselling only after the results are declared.

The documents submitted by the candidates are verified by the district selection committee at the district level. The committee cancels the application of a candidate, whose documents are not complete or are found to have discrepancies at the time of verification.

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Uttarakhand students to now get disaster management lessons at schools - education

Given the COVID-19 pandemic and approaching monsoons which lead to many disasters in the state, the Uttarakhand government has now decided that students will be taught disaster management in schools once a week.

Chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat while taking a review meeting of the disaster management department on Saturday gave the instructions. The chief minister instructed the officers to provide training to the youth, members of Gram Sabha so as to prepare themselves and learn how to handle such situations.

“It is necessary to make people aware of disaster management given the geographical conditions of Uttarakhand. It is important to train people for incidents of fire and how to tackle with emergency situations during the rainy season. For this, mock drills should also be conducted from time to time to meet the challenges of disaster,” said Rawat.

He further said that to make the training that is being given for disaster management more effective, experts in the field should be consulted.

“Those who are authorised by the experts to train teachers across schools should start the training work for disaster management. The visual communication system should be strengthened further. Sensitive places should be identified from the point of view of disaster before monsoon sets in. Along with this, efforts should be made to minimize disaster response time and awareness campaigns informing people about the spread of Covid-19 should continue,” said Rawat.

In the meeting, officials from the Uttarakhand State Disaster Management Authority apprised the chief minister that work was underway for installing Doppler radar in Mukteshwar and Surkanda which will give accurate information related to the weather. To strengthen the communication system, 184 satellite phones have been provided at the tehsil level across the state.

Since 2012, 699 families in 27 disaster-hit villages have been rehabilitated. Along with this, 84 earthquake early warning system devices have been installed in the Garhwal division and 100 in Kumaon division. Flood warning systems have also been installed at eight sensitive locations on the banks of Ganga from Koteshwar to Rishikesh. Officials at the state and district level have also been trained in incident response systems.

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