Just before the SLC exams started, an unknown group of locals pelted stones at police personnel who were seizing unauthorized materials from students entering the exam center at Janata Higher Secondary School of Paink VDC in Jajarkot district.Police constable Amar Nepali sustained injury in the incident. He sustained broken jaw and is currently undergoing treatment at the District Hospital after receiving basic treatment in Paink Health Post, according to police.
"Some enraged locals pelted stones at the police constable for confiscating guess papers and books before allowing the students enter the exam hall," said DSP Dan Bahadur Malla, chief of the District Police Office (DPO), Jajarkot. He added that locals involved in the incident are at large and police are looking for them.
Three examinees have been expelled for cheating in the exam center at Tribhuvan Higher Secondary School (HSSS) of the district. Likewise, two invigilators deputed at Laxmi Prapti HSS were dismissed for helping students cheat in the exams. Police also arrested Padam Bahadur Basnet, an assistant helper deputed at the exam center of Panchala High School for attempting to leak the question papers before the start of the exam.
Despite such incidents, authorities at Exam Coordination Committee claimed that Thursday's exam was conducted smoothly in Jajarkot.
Similarly, police detained four invigilators from exam centers of Rautahat district. A monitoring team red-handedly caught the invigilators deputed at Nemdhari Basudhev HSS and Simara Bhawanipur HSS while helping students cheat in the exams, informed the District Education Officer Hari Prasad Wasti.
The SLC exams in Rautahat were well-managed and dignified compared to the past years. A total of 10,154 wrote their exams from 26 exam centers of the district, out of which 6,754 examinees are under regular category and 3,400 exempted, according to the district's Exam Coordination Office.
Meanwhile, 19 examinees from various exam centers remained absent on the first day of the SLC exams in Myagdi district. "We received information that some of the absentees have left for foreign employment while one of them had died after being drowned in a river," said Bishwo Prakash Regmi of schools monitoring team.
There are nine exam centers in the district and the first day of the exams went smoothly, informed the authorities. A total of 545 students participated in the exams, out of which 358 are under regular category and 187 exempted.
Meanwhile, two inmates - Purna Pariyar and Bom Bahadur Badi - serving prison terms wrote their exams from jail, according to police.
Examinees of the quake-ravaged Gorkha district were forced to write their exams under tin huts in lack of proper classrooms. More than half of the 26 exam centers in the district were set up under makeshift tents. As many as 100 students out of the total 5,800 students in the district did not appear for the exams on the first day.
(Republica's correspondent Janak KC from Jajarkot, Madan Thakur from Rautahat, Hari Krishna Gautam from Myagdi and Narhari Sapkota from Gorkha contributed to this story.)
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