Coaching centers filling dodgy SLC forms were illegal

BUTWAL, March 13: It has come to light that the coaching centres in Butwal that tried to register 312 students for the School Leaving Certificate (SLC) examinations by offering enducements to staff at Kapilvastu District Education Office were operating illegally all this time.



All the students who filled the examinations forms under the name of Buddha Padam Higher Secondary have been restricted from appearing in the exams.[break]



According to Rupandehi District Education Office (DEO), Kusum Coaching Centre, Blue Sky Education House, Lumbini Coaching Centre and Bhrihaspati Coaching Centre were operating without registering at DEO.



DEO had send a notice to the institutes to fulfill necessary legal formalities but they had turned a deaf ear, informed Under-Secretary at DEO Gangaram Acharya. “They will face action for ignoring legal procedures intentionally. Blue Sky Education House needed to renew its registration and the other two had never registered at all,” said Acharya.



With the uncovering of illegal doings on the part of the coaching institutes, police have arrested the operators of the institutes. They have been identified as Yam Prasad Shrestha of Brishaspati Coaching Centre, Tikaram Sharma of Lumbini Coaching Centre, Sushil Khanal of Kusum Coaching Centre and Tribhuwan Parajuli of Blue Sky Coaching Centre.



Under-Secretary at the examination department at DEO Mahendra Singh Shrestha and another employee, Arjun Kuwar, have come under interrogation by the Ministry of Education.



“All those arrested are going through necessary investigations and in the second phase they will face forgery charges,” said Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Raj Kumar Baidawar at Area Police Office, Butwal.



Principal of Buddha Padam Higher Secondary School Ramnewash Chaudhary, who has been running an open school program, ssid that there are certain rules that have to be followed if students want to enroll for the program. “The students should come from a genuine school, they must have taken 35 contact classes in a year and their registration forms should have been filled before the dateline,” said Chaudhary. “Only if these regulations are followed will DEO receive their examination forms. Don’t know how the unfortunate students were made to fill their forms,” Chaudhary added.

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