SHUBHANGI SHIFA
Ranchi, June 13: The violence on Friday disturbed many aspects of life including education in the capital city. The call of bandh on Saturday disrupted children from appearing in the ongoing Jharkhand Academic Council’s evaluation examination of classes I to VII.
Along with this, around 2338 students of medical, 2480 of engineering, and 1223 of CLAT, who were preparing for the state-level Aakansha programme suffered due to the internet shutdown done in the city. Notably, students are being prepared for entrance exams of medical, engineering, and CLAT through online counseling under the state-level Akansha programme that started on Wednesday.
An official at JAC, in this regard, said, “On the first day, a total of 301 children had called on the mobiles of the teachers identified by the department. During this, a total of 433 questions were asked, but on Friday and Saturday, their numbers went down due to internet service disruption.”
“However, through phone calls, many children asked their questions to the 25 identified teachers, which were answered,” the official added. He further said that due to dilapidated conditions in the city, the education of the children was interrupted in the past few days. Students were unable to access model question papers as due to internet disruption, the JAC website was unreachable.
Notably, many questions like the format of the questions in the CLAT, the issue date for model questions, and issues related to the syllabus were some of the queries of students.
Meanwhile, the children of class VII took the Sanskrit examination in their respective schools on Saturday. Almost 100 percent attendance was recorded in most of the schools, however, more than half a dozen schools in urban areas could not conduct the examination due to the turbulent conditions in the city.
DSE Kamla Singh in this regard said that in the schools where the examination could not be conducted due to the disturbance, a separate date would be fixed for the examination in those schools.
