The District Education Officer (DEO) for Vellore, Nesa Prabha, on Friday was suspended by the Department of School Education for dereliction of duty related to preparatory works for Class XII board examinations.
The suspension comes on the day of commencement of examinations on Friday. “We have been informed about the suspension. However, we are still awaiting the written order,” a senior official of the department told The Hindu.
Sources said that Nesa Prabha was appointed as the custodian of the Question Papers Control Centre (QPCC) that was set up at the Government Girls Higher Secondary School in Gudiyatham near Vellore. The school was one of the three centres in the district earmarked for the purpose. The other two centres are Government Higher Secondary Schools in Konavattam in Vellore’s Old Town and Katpadi. The centres were created to ensure timely dispatch of question papers to examination centres in the district for board examinations of Class XI and XII.
