ACCHAM: The fate of hundreds of SLC students hangs in the balance following the District Education Office’s move to delist them from appearing the forthcoming examination. Despite their ineligibility, students are busy preparing for the exams, sources said today.

A total of 477 students from 69 schools have been reckoned as ‘ineligible’ to sit for the Iron Gate exams this year. They have been delisted for various reasons including for filling registration forms twice, for having less than 80 per cent in school attendance and for failing to pay necessary fees.

“As the office this year has become strict regarding the ineligible students, this figure has come to light,” said District Education Officer Shyam Singh Dhami, adding, as many as 46 students ineligible students have been found at a single school alone in the Rahaf-based Bindrasaini Secondary School and 33 each at Jaisur-based Bishwojyoti and Dhungachalna-based Astasiddhi Secondary schools.

According to Dhami, the district examination coordination committee has written to the Examination Controllers Office to remove the names of the concerned students from the examiners’ list.

There are high chances of filling double registration forms as many students from the Tarai region have filled the registration from the district thinking they could easily pass the examinations by using unfair means, a source said. According to the DEO, a total of 6,889 examiners are appearing the SLC exams from the district this year.

source: The Himalayan Times, 11 March 2013