PTI, NEW DELHI: Stressing the need to move beyond party politics on the CBSE paper leak issue, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia today asked HRD minister Prakash Javadekar to convene a meeting of all state education ministers to discuss ways to stop recurrence of such serious incidents.
In a letter to Javadekar, the deputy chief minister said there have been concerns over leaks of several other exam papers and asserted that not only does it affect the future of 26 lakh students, but also puts a question mark on the “sanctity” of the CBSE assessment system.
He said if the examination papers are leaked, then undeserving students perform well and hard-working students are left behind, which means the country gets low quality officials, teachers, doctors and engineers.
“So let us all put our minds together and think of solutions for the national good,” he wrote in the letter.
“I request you to immediately convene a day-long brain-storming session of all education ministers, so that we can ensure that such serious incidents do not happen again.
“This is an issue on which we need to move beyond party politics because every time an examination paper is leaked, be it CBSE, SSB or DSSSB the negative consequences are for the country, not just to any one government or one party,” Sisodia, who also holds the education portfolio, wrote.
