Ruling BJP, JD(U) members corner their govt over poor functioning of Bihar Board's centres

PATNA: Members of the ruling BJP and JD(U) on Wednesday cornered their own government in Bihar legislative council over the issue of poor functioning of the Bihar School Examination Board's regional centres. The BSEB recently opened nine regional centres, one in each division.


Raising the issue through a call-attention motion, BJP member Lal Babu Prasad said large number of students from across the state every day turned up before the intermediate branch of the BSEB office in the state capital here for minor corrections like their name or father's name on their certificates or marksheets. Such small corrections could be made within 3-4 days, but the students were made to wait for months to get their corrected certificates. The situation aggravated further after opening of the Board's regional centres as they were yet to start function properly and the board has closed all its counters at its main office, he said.

Supporting Prasad's concern, BJP member Nawal Kishore Yadav, JD(U)'s Dilip Kumar Choudhary, Hira Prasad Bind and some others pointed out that none of the Board's nine regional centres, which were opened on March 19, were working properly, causing immense hardship to the students.

Intervening in the matter, CPI member Kedar Nath Pandey requested the state government, through the chair, to allow corrections in the certificates from the board's main office in Patna till the regional centres became fully operative. The Council's acting chairman Haroon Rashid observed that since the regional centres were opened just nine days ago, the government should consider the members' demand in the larger interest of students.

Replying on behalf of the education department, the state's cooperative minister Rana Randhir Singh assured the House that the government had taken not of the members' concern and take necessary step to improve function of the Board's regional centres.