Students of the school situated in Latehar district, now known more for Maoists’ activities, have been performing extremely well in the matriculation examination since 1974 when Naresh Kumar topped in the Bihar School Examination Board for the first time. Matriculation than was equivalent to Class-XI and not Class-X as now.Since then, its students have topped in Bihar and Jharkhand (from 2001) 29 times. Many of them are now doctors, engineers, civil servants, scientists, journalists, bankers, academics etc spread all over India and even abroad.

However, according to The Times of India report from Ranchi this year, evaluators at Ursuline Convent in Jharkhand’s capital raised the alarm after noticing widespread use of white ink in answer copies following which a probe was ordered by the Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC).

Reports said that the inquiry committee confirmed the use of unfair means by students of the residential school and government school at Netarhat.

During the probe, results of 103 students of the residential school and 116 students of the government school were withheld which were now cleared by the JAC and sent to the National Informatics Centre to be uploaded on the website.

According to the report the JAC has directed the NIC not to include the students in the merit list. “We are convinced about the use of unfair means and reply given by the principals of both the schools was found unsatisfactory,” said JAC chairperson Laxmi Singh. She further argued that the results were being published keeping in mind the future of hundreds of students.

“Action would be taken against the erring principals as well,” Singh was quoted in the daily.The overall performance of the school and its students has come under question as the JAC is alleged to have superficially scrutinized the answer sheets of previous batches.

Laxmi Singh said that some of the copies of the toppers of previous year was checked and it was found that white ink was used in some of them.However, according to the report, the period between 2001 and 2005 is considered bad for the residential school when there were no toppers in the merit list.But former principal Vinod Karn attributes this to certain changes introduced in the school to revive the lost glory. “In 2008, all ten top ranks were clinched by our students whereas in 2009 there were eight students in the top ten merit list,” he was quoted in the newspaper. Similar was the performace in 2010.

Principal in-charge Ram Naresh Singh, however, refused the charges of resorting to unfair means by the students and asked the JAC to re-examine the students anywhere in the state on any pattern of question based on their syllabus.

”Previously, the students were sent to Daltongunj and Mahuadar and it was after a directive of the JAC that the two schools in Netarhat were asked to interchange examination centres in which we had no role,” he said.

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