Bhubaneswar: With the Higher Education department announcing the first phase cut-off list today for admission in the Plus Two streams, the students are worried over non-availability of books and new syllabuses which would be prepared and published by Odisha State Bureau of Text Book Preparation and Production as per the CBSE pattern.
Talking to OTV today, Prof Basudeb Chhatoi, chairman of Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE), said in fact the authorities of the Odisha State Bureau of Text Book Preparation and Production were asked to deliver the new syllabuses after the conclusion of the annual Plus Two examinations.
“But as the Bureau failed to comply with our request, I had a joint meeting with the senior Bureau officials including the director recently and requested them to release the new syllabuses before the start of the admission process by May 23. But the Bureau is yet to release the syllabuses till date,” he pointed out.
Asked about the matter, Gitika Patnaik, director of the Textbook Bureau, said the work for the publication of book is in full swing since last 3-4 months after the Bureau received the new syllabuses from the CHSE.
“The Bureau has taken up the work in association with experienced teachers, authors and reviewers who are even working during holidays. The fact is since the books are to be published in a new format, it will take time. Had the books been prepared as per old syllabuses, things would have been different altogether,” she said.
Expressing concern, Mudra Mohanty, a girl student, said though admission process has begun, she is yet to know about the new syllabuses introduced by the CHSE which are prepared as per the CBSE pattern. “Neither we have seen these new books and nor we find the new syllabuses in the website,” she said.
Another student Dabaprasad Das said though the results have been declared since June 1, he does not know about the new books and the new syllabuses as a result of which he is unable to prepare ourselves to get used to the new pattern during summer vacation.
“Now that the vacation is almost over, I am worried as how I would cope with the new syllabuses,” he pointed out.