Slogans not our cup of T, warns BIE

The Board of Intermediate Education has warned students that they would be debarred and their results would be withheld if they penned slogans such as “Jai Telangana”, “Jai Samaikyandhra”, or “Jai Andhra” on the intermediate answer scripts.

Students booked under malpractice can be debarred from appearing for Inter exams from one year to eight years.

“Writing anything other than answers amounts to communicating with the examiners directly or indirectly which is a punishable offence,” said the BIE secretary, Mr G. Balaramaiah. “Exams are not the means to express demands or wishes.”

The board has come out with this stern warning in the context of emotions running high among students over the bifurcation of the state.

“Students should focus on exams and should not participate in agitation,” said Mr Balaramaiah. “Their elders will take care of bifurcation issues. My appeal to students is focus on their future.” Answer scripts with such political graffiti would be referred to the malpractice review committee that will take a final call on the action to be initiated. The committee will examine such scripts to ascertain whether students were awarded more or less marks by evaluators. Action will be taken against evaluators if any regional partiality is discerned. Mr Balaramaiah said the board used the bar-coding method to keep the identity of the student confidential.