Kupwara: Several students on Saturday protested against education department at main town Kupwara over failing to provide the sufficient lighting, heating and proper timing and accommodation to the students appearing in part Two annual examination.
Students alleged that, yesterday hundreds of students who appeared in English paper at a examination center of 5122 were given paper about fifteen minutes later and taken back before more than twenty minutes.
“As Per the official time we were supposed to take paper at 02:30Pm but instead of that we were given paper at 02:45Pm and in the evening papers were taken back from us forcefully by the superintendent Khalid Nadeem Khan,” they alleged.
“A madam among the staff members turned on the flashlight of her phone and after some time some other staff members also turned on their phone flashlights under which we managed to write our answer sheets,” they claimed.
Students said that we seek intervention of Chief education officer Kupwara and district administration in this regard.
“I have also received a compliant regarding the students claims,”, CEO kupwara Shafiq Nabi War said.
We will investigate the matter, he said.