A total of 168 instances of exam malpractices were recorded on the first day of the state education board's secondary school certificate (SSC, Class X) examination, which started on Thursday. This included 29 cases reported from Pune division. The first language papers for Marathi, Hindi and other regional languages, including Urdu and Gujarati, were held on the first day of the board exam.
"A majority of the 168 malpractice cases were relating to copying attempts by students at various exam centres," Sarjerao Jadhav, chairman, Maharashtra State Board for Secondary and Higher Secondary Education, told TOI.
He said, "The maximum cases - 70 in numbers - were reported from Nagpur division, followed by 44 in Nashik division and 29 in Pune division, which covers Pune, Ahmednagar and Solapur districts. Another 19 cases were reported from Aurangabad division while Amravati division reported six cases."
Incidentally, not a single case was reported from Mumbai, Kolhapur, Latur and Konkan divisions of the state board. "We have put measures to check instances of malpractices during the ongoing exam," Jadhav said, and added that efforts will be on to see that such instances are kept in check.
Barring these instances, the board exam made a smooth beginning, as over 17.11 lakh students from across the state are enrolled for the exam this year. This includes over 15.48 lakh fresh candidates and over 1.63 lakh repeater candidates besides 51,019 external candidates and 6,441 physically-handicapped candidates. Pune division has more than 2.71 lakh students appearing in the exam this year.
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