Video showed open cheating from books in Chakghat college exam hall; inquiry ordered
A viral video allegedly from TD College, Chakghat, showed students copying from books in a BSc BEd zoology exam. The Higher Education Department ordered an inquiry and sent a flying squad.
Chakghat in Rewa district was in the headlines once again as a hub of cheating. A video that went viral on social media exposed the state of the education system. In it, students were seen openly writing answers from books in the examination room, with no fear of invigilation or discipline, as if the exam were a spectacle.
Students openly copying in the examination room
The matter concerned TD College, Chakghat, near the Uttar Pradesh border, which is affiliated with Awadhesh Pratap Singh University. It was alleged that the management took money from students and gave them free rein to cheat in the exam hall. Students were reportedly handed entire books, with no need even for slips or chits. For students weak at copying, the college management allegedly seated other students to help them.
The viral video was said to be of a BSc BEd zoology exam. Students could clearly be seen keeping books on their tables and writing in their answer sheets. Anyone who had difficulty with a question was also free to discuss it with others in the exam hall and find a solution. The hall presented a market-like scene.
Additional Director of the Higher Education Department, Prof. R.P. Singh, took the matter seriously. He said it was gross negligence and that an inquiry into the conducted examination had been ordered. He said he had asked for a flying squad to be sent immediately and that strict action would be taken against the guilty.
He also acknowledged that the Chakghat area was already notorious for cheating, and that action had been taken several times in the past when videos surfaced. But the repeated emergence of such cases, he said, raised a big question about the education system.
Local people said several private colleges operated in the Chakghat area where cheating was openly allowed for money, and that these colleges earned heavily by playing with students’ futures. This mindset, which lowered the standard of education, had tarnished Chakghat’s image.
The big question then was whether the Higher Education Department and the district administration would be able to crack down on the cheating mafia this time, or whether the matter would again be shelved after an assurance of action.
