TOI EXCLUSIVE - Men dictated answers from the
window. Nobody stopped them
Anuja Jaiswal
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Mathura
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A TOI reporter sat in some exam halls to watch the cheating mafia at work during UP's board exams. What she witnessed is a shocking demonstration of the deep rot in the education system
`Spotters' on motorcycles are parked strategically every 500 metres or so on the road to an exam centre at Shyam Lal Inter College in Farah, Mathura district. Their job is to send out an alert to `embedded moles' if anyone suspicious approaches the test centres.A local contact has assured me that by the time I reach the school, a message would have been flashed and “everything there would be normal“. I could just walk into the hall where students are taking the exams, no questions asked. He was right. There are parents, students and teachers, all milling around. As I walk into the centre, no one, including cops, thinks it necessary to stop me and demand to know who am I, though it has been a long time since I looked like a school stu dent.
It's 7.50am on Thursday and Class X students are taking the Science exam. There is a teacher in the room. The students, who are sitting with their desks almost joined together, are busy writing.
Just then, a voice booms out from one of the windows.“Pehla wala khatam ho gaya?
Ab doosra likho (You've written the first answer? Now write the second one).“ A cheating mafia man then patiently dictates one answer after another until he finishes the whole paper.
My next destination is Radha Gopal Inter College in Raya, where the scene is even more bizarre. Here, some parents are sitting beside their children and solving their papers in a concerted effort. Teachers stroll around, but it's as if the cheating is invisible to them.The students are talking loudly and dictating answers to each other. After a question is finished, someone trots up to a tout standing outside and prompts him to start the next answer. All this takes place right under the nose of college authorities and police.
According to sources, each of these students had paid anything between `5,000 and `15,000 for `help' from the cheating mafia, also called `nakal mafia; locally . These `cheating packages' -of `5,000, `10,000 and `15,000 -have been specially designed by the mafia to meet the needs of “all kinds of students“.
Sources said while `5,000 is charged from students who come and write their papers with the help of their own cheating material, `10,000 is charged from students who opt for dictation of the correct answers. The highest package, of `15,000, is for students who just come to mark their attendance and their papers are written by touts and their agents.
It's 7.50am on Thursday and Class X students are taking the Science exam. There is a teacher in the room. The students, who are sitting with their desks almost joined together, are busy writing.
Just then, a voice booms out from one of the windows.“Pehla wala khatam ho gaya?
Ab doosra likho (You've written the first answer? Now write the second one).“ A cheating mafia man then patiently dictates one answer after another until he finishes the whole paper.
My next destination is Radha Gopal Inter College in Raya, where the scene is even more bizarre. Here, some parents are sitting beside their children and solving their papers in a concerted effort. Teachers stroll around, but it's as if the cheating is invisible to them.The students are talking loudly and dictating answers to each other. After a question is finished, someone trots up to a tout standing outside and prompts him to start the next answer. All this takes place right under the nose of college authorities and police.
According to sources, each of these students had paid anything between `5,000 and `15,000 for `help' from the cheating mafia, also called `nakal mafia; locally . These `cheating packages' -of `5,000, `10,000 and `15,000 -have been specially designed by the mafia to meet the needs of “all kinds of students“.
Sources said while `5,000 is charged from students who come and write their papers with the help of their own cheating material, `10,000 is charged from students who opt for dictation of the correct answers. The highest package, of `15,000, is for students who just come to mark their attendance and their papers are written by touts and their agents.
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