Pokhara: A total of 1,05,014 students are appearing this year’s SLC examinations from Western Development Region. Of them, 85,833 are regular and 14,681 exempted, director of Regional Directorate of Education Gopalkrishna Paudel said.

According to Paudel, 373 SLC examination centers have been set up in the region, of which 49 centers have been established in Rupandehi district from where 15,306 students would be appearing for the exams. Manang and Mustang have one center each, where 86 and 35 students respectively shall be appea-ring for the SLC this year.

According to Regional Directorate of Education, directives have been issued for smooth conduct of exams at all centres, though special emphasis have been laid on Nawalparasi, Rupandehi and Kapilbastu in view of the sensitivity in these districts. Paudel said primary level teachers will be deployed as invigilators during the exams.

Meanwhile, Kaski DEO, Chandrakanta Bhusal today issued 35-point code of conduct to make the SLC examinations disciplined in the district. The code of the conduct has provisioned up to six months’ prison sentence or up to Rs 100,000 penalty or both for those

violating rules.

Bhusal informed 11,079 students are appearing SLC examination from the district. Of them, 9 are visually-impaired and 19 with hearing disability.

Parasi students

Parasi: SLC appearing students have started arriving in the headquarters Parasi to appear the SLC exams schedule for Tuesday.

Students have started tur-ning up in advance with the fear that they would not get hotel rooms if they come late. There are just ten hotels in Parasi, which are already been overcrowded with students. Last year students were compelled to stay in tents when they did not get hotel rooms.

According to District Education Office a total of 12,631 students will be appearing SLC exam from Nawalparasi district this year. Education Officer Teb Bahadur Thapa said the district has 40 centers where 10,995 regular and 1,636 exempted students will be appearing examination.

Supts refuse to take responsibility
Accham: Four superintendents appointed by the Secondary Education Coordination Committee today refused to take the responsibility in the district for the SLC exams starting from Tuesday. They went homes instead of going to their respective exam centers. All four teachers — Dil Raj Khanal, Dharbendra Shah, Ratan Bhandari and Prem Khadka — are affiliated to All-Nepal National Teachers Associations (ANNTA) aligned to CPN-UML. The association directed the teachers affiliated to the association not to take their responsibility as their demand of appointing the teachers of lower secondary level and relief quota also as superintendent remained unfulfilled. Only one teacher affiliated to ANNTA appointed as a superintendent Netra Bahadur Saud has agreed to take his responsibility. Section officer at District Education Office Lok Bahadur Shahi informed that the school investigators would be designated as superintendents in the vacant places.

source: The Himalayan Times, 19 March 2012