Rajasthan govt suspends teachers for howlers on Modi in question paper

The Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education (RBSE) suspended two teachers in connection with an error-ridden passage on Prime Minister Modi in its mid-term English question paper for Class X students.

A question on a passage on Modi described the prime minister as a "spoker, craod-puller and sovy leader". It read, "Modi served as the Chief Minister of Gujarat for the four terms. As a spoker he is known as a craod-puller. He is the most sovy political leader of India."

A decision to penalise the printing press was also taken by board authorities. Ratan Singh Yadav, Jaipur District Education Officer, said, "nearly 15-20 errors were made by the teachers while the printing press was responsible for 12-13 inaccuracies. Negligence has been made at two levels: the teachers who prepared and the moderator who reviewed the half-yearly question paper and at the printing press."

The spelling mistakes have left education officials in the BJP-ruled Rajasthan red-faced. The question papers were distributed in about 35,000 government and private schools affiliated to RBSE in Jaipur.