Jharkhand News: NPU exam centres ensure care for sick, pregnant, lactating examinees

THE JHARKHAND STORY NETWORK

Daltonganj, May 21: An undergraduate girl examinee turned up at the JS College exam centre with measles on Wednesday. She looked determined to write her exam, but was in physical distress.

Centre superintendent of the JS College in Daltonganj, Dr Ashwini Kumar Vaidya and his team took prompt care of this girl examinee.

According to Dr Vaidya, the measles-afflicted girl examinee was segregated from the lot of other examinees by giving her a separate seat.

Dr Vaidya said the examinees at the centre had no problem with this measles-afflicted examinee at all.

The centre has made adequate arrangements for the drinking water, said Dr Vaidya.

Measles is a highly infectious and contagious disease and hence preventive measures are mandatory.

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University Urges Sensitivity and Preparedness for Special Cases

The In-Charge Controller of University Examinations, Dr Ajit Seth, said, “Necessary instructions have been given to the centre superintendents to exercise common sense in the event of such a situation where a sick or infected examinee turns up.”

Vice Chancellor of the Nilamber Pitamber University, Dr Prof Dinesh Kumar Singh, told this correspondent, “I have asked the In-Charge Controller of the University Exams to ensure that such a case where the disease is infectious and contagious must be taken all proper care of so that no health issue arises to other fellow examinees.”

Pregnant and Lactating Examinees Receive Supportive Measures

A pregnant examinee came to write her paper on Tuesday who demanded separate seat which was made available.

The Vice Chancellor asked the In-Charge Controller of the University Exams to see that guardians or husbands or family members of such pregnant examinees also know what facilities, like that of sitting etc have been provided, just to avert any undue criticism of facilities for advanced stage of pregnancy.

“Advanced stage pregnancies have its own delicacies. Let centre superintendents understand that no inconvenience by way of sitting etc comes to any examinee of the advanced stage of pregnancy,” added the VC.

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In-Charge Controller of the University Exams, Ajit Seth said, “Some lactating mothers are examinees. They come with their suckling babies who cry for breastfeeding during the period of the examination. Such examinee gets space and privacy for breastfeeding their suckling babies.”

There is no examinee under judicial custody so far taking the university exam.

Sources said that in the past, under trial inmates or the convicts of the Central Jail Daltonganj did come out of the jail under judicial order and provision and sat in the exam hall or room and wrote their papers with armed cops around them.