Srinagar: Hours before Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education (JKBOSE) officially declared the results of Class 10th on Tuesday afternoon, thousands of students and parents seeking to know the results were left in the lurch owing to the board's 'goof-up' in hosting the results on its official website.
Since Tuesday midnight, hundreds of candidates were able to check the results through a JKBOSE weblink posted on popular social networking website Facebook. The board authorities however till Tuesday afternoon maintained that the results were yet to be declared, creating confusion among the students and general public.
The link which redirected users to the official website of the board was later blocked by the website administrators an hour before the results were officially announced
However, JKBOSE authorities are yet to explain how the ‘official’ website link surfaced on the internet. Surinder Sharma, director of Jammu-based Say Technologies which maintains the official website of JKBOSE confirmed to Kashmir Dispatch that the result was indeed hosted online on Tuesday midnight for testing purposes before being pulled off from the internet.
“We did a test run to keep the pages ready for publishing. We are given little time to make the results available online by the board authorities. We have to be always ready with the results,” said Sharma adding, “May be somebody had accessed the website at that time and circulated the link further, which could have been accessed by others, even with basic knowledge of internet one can access the results; but there is no question of hacking."
Commissioner Secretary Education and JKBOSE chairperson Naseema Lankar told a Delhi-based news agency that the board had given a trial run on the internet before declaring the result officially.
"There is nothing like leak. We had to give a trial run for the results on the internet which we did. The result is now available on the site,” Lankar told the news agency.
Agitated parents and students termed the goof-up in declaration of the results as an unprofessional act on part of the board authorities. They blamed the board for the fiasco and creating confusion among the students and general public.
“If the board doesn’t have sufficient manpower and know-how of technology to host the results on their official website, I don’t think there is any need to play around with such things. This shows lack of professionalism ,” said Abdul Rasheed Sofi, a parent.
The state education minister, Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed denied that the results were 'leaked' but promised an inquiry into the matter.
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