OMR sheets of 108 students missing from exam centre
Malkangiri: OMR sheets of the Mathematics paper of 108 students who had appeared for matriculation examination were found missing from a government-run high school in Malkangiri district on Sunday. The matter came to light after the authorities of SSD High School at Padia lodged a complaint at Padia police station, police said. The complaint said the optical mark recognition (OMR) sheets of nearly 108 students, who appeared for Mathematics exam on Saturday, have gone missing from the school premises. Malkangiri Superintendent of Police Jagmohan Meena said a team led by ASP U C Nayak has been sent to the school to conduct a thorough probe into the incident. “Investigation is in progress to ascertain the circumstances in which the OMR sheets went missing,” he said. The school authorities have also informed the district administration and the Board of Secondary Education (BSE), which conducts the annual matriculation examination in the state, about the incident, said an official. (PTI)
Trinamool forms poll panel
Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) has formed a 12-member committee Sunday to chart modalities on election campaign in West Bengal for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the party’s secretary general Partha Chatterjee said. The committee would look into the applications by aspiring candidates to fight the elections and forward those to the party’s supremo Mamata Banerjee, Chatterjee told newspersons here. “The committee will look into election-related publicity and screening of applications of aspiring candidates in consultation with party supremo Mamata Banerjee,” Chatterjee said. While Abhishek Banerjee and O’Brien are Lok Sabha MPs, the other 10 members of the committee are ministers in the state cabinet. Out of 42 Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal, TMC won 34 seats, the Congress got four and the BJP and CPI(M) won two each in the 2014 general elections. (PTI)
CISF creates world record
New Delhi: Troops of the CISF Sunday created history by achieving a Guinness world record feat in ‘single line bicycle parade’ to mark the 50 years of the paramilitary force, an officer said. The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) was raised in 1969 and it has about 1.80 lakh personnel in its ranks. The record was created at the Yamuna Expressway in Noida when personnel of the central force rode a total of 1,327 bicycles “non-stop with uniform distance between bicycles in a single line,” the official said. “The bicycle parade covered 3.2 km distance non-stop. Earlier, this record was held by Hubballi bicycle club of India which had 1,235 bicycles in single chain,” a CISF spokesperson said. (PTI)
Delhi Assembly to go paperless
New Delhi: In view of delay in implementation of the Centre’s project for paperless legislative assemblies in the country, Delhi Vidhan Sabha has decided to implement it on it’s own with financial help from the city government. The general purposes committee (GPC) of Delhi Assembly in it’s report has opined that the project, NeVA (National e-Vidhan Application), for all the Legislatures has been “badly delayed” and hence the Assembly should implement it from the funds provided by the AAP government. The GPC report was tabled and adopted in the recently concluded budget session of the state assembly. “The Assembly Secretariat has sought Rs 20 crore in the budget estimates of 2019-20. The project will be modified to best suit the need of the Delhi Assembly and it’s members,” said the report. A Delhi Assembly Secretariat official said the government has allocated the required sum in the budget for 2019-20. The project will involve Information and Technology department of Delhi government and National Informatics Centre (NIC), it said. (PTI)