{"id":15030,"date":"2013-11-29T12:59:09","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T07:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=15030"},"modified":"2013-11-29T15:42:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T10:12:27","slug":"cctv-cameras-to-be-installed-in-exam-halls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/cctv-cameras-to-be-installed-in-exam-halls\/","title":{"rendered":"CCTV cameras to be installed in exam halls?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an attempt to strengthen vigil on examinees, Kerala University has directed all self-financing professional, arts and science colleges to install CCTV cameras inside examination halls.<\/p>\n<h3>Also Read:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/46-cameras-to-catch-students-bunking-classes\/\" target=\"_blank\">46 Cameras to catch students bunking classes!\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The CCTV camera will help to detect and prevent the growing incidents of mass copying by students with the support of college authorities.\u00a0 The decision to this effect was taken at a syndicate meeting after conducting a review of the malpractice cases detected in the past 2 years. The management of all colleges were also directed to conduct examinations in the ground floor as far as possible to give easy access to squads to carry out inspection.<\/p>\n<p>Mass copying instances had shown an unprecedented rise in the recent years and the information taken from students during the hearing indicates that the malpractice was done with the support of the management.<\/p>\n<p>Last year alone, 5 cases of mass copying were found and were referred to the committee led by the Controller of Examinations. Fines around Rs.1 lakh to Rs.2 lakh were imposed on various institutions.\u00a0 An engineering college in Trivandrum and Kollam, a teacher education college in Alappuzha and a dental college were among the institutions that were fined.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Kerala High court directed the state government to consider closing down self-financing engineering colleges whose pass percentage was less than 40 in the last 3 years. This could be the reason why managements are allowing mass copying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an attempt to strengthen vigil on examinees, Kerala University has directed all self-financing professional, arts and science colleges to install CCTV cameras inside examination halls. Also Read: 46 Cameras to catch students bunking classes!\u00a0 The CCTV camera will help to detect and prevent the growing incidents of mass copying by students with the support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":15066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-15030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}