KOKRAJHAR, Feb 3: A delegation of All Bodo Students’ Union (ABSU) led by vice-president Dipen Boro and education secretary Kastom Basumatary on Saturday called on the chairman of Board of Secondary Education Assam (SEBA) and submitted memorandum urging him for taking necessary preventive measure in selection and printing of Bodo medium question papers for the ensuing HSLC examition, 2018, to ensure error-free conduct of examition and to stop repeated mistakes done earlier in case of Bodo medium.
The vice-president conveyed some vital points for prompt necessary steps for the benefit of the students’ fraternity and people as a whole. Vice-president Boro said after creation of BTC in 2003, three more new districts had been created bifurcating the old districts i.e. Chirang, Baksa and Udalguri, with a view to give better administrative governce and speedy development of the region but it remained due to negligence, there were no examition centres listed in all those three districts in the last one decade for all the competitive examitions conducted by the APSC for which students of the districts concerned situated in remote areas were facing critical days in attending all those examitions in the district headquarters. He also said there should be new examition centre for Biswath district which had been created newly.
Boro said the union conveyed their gratitude to SEBA chairman for inclusion of Bodo language as one of the language papers for APSC civil service examition. He also demanded that the Bodo language should be included in other competitive examitions where applicable in the line of Assamese and English.
The ABSU urged the chairman of SEBA to take needful steps and to open examition centres for all the competitive examitions in the new district headquarters as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, the ABSU extended its gratitude to the State Coorditor, NRC Assam, Prateek Hajela for the successful time bound publication of draft NRC. The students’ union said that so many typing mistakes had appeared in mes after publication of draft NRC which needed immediate correction to make error-free fil NRC publication. They also said that after draft publication it was seen that some of the mes were not published in Bodo which was their agreed point to use as a constitutiolly recognized and associate official language of Assam. They further urged to open a new App for me correction and conversion for the welfare of the citizens included in draft NRC.