A Madhyamik examinee who had to be admitted to hospital with severe anaemia after the first exam on Tuesday, wrote Wednesday’s test from his hospital bed.
Officers of Behala police station were prompt in arranging for transport to ferry officials of the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education, which conducts the Madhyamik examinations, and examiners to the hospital.
Priyangshu Mandal, a student of Barisha Shashibhushan Janakalyan Vidyapith, wrote the English examination from the male ward of the Calcutta National Medical College Hospital.
Priyangshu’s family members visited Jagatpur Rukmini Vidyamandir in Behala, the boy’s examination centre, in the morning to say that he was in hospital. The examination officials decided to arrange for Priyangshu to write the test
from hospital.
An examiner from the school, accompanied by board officials, reached Behala police station at 11.30am and requested the officer-in-charge, Prosenjit Poddar, to help them reach the Park Circus hospital as soon as possible.
The police immediately arranged a vehicle and an escort motorcycle. Sergeant Partha Mandal, assistant sub-inspector Bula Dhar and the rest left Behala police station at 11.50am. Mandal, who rode the escort bike, switched on the hooter to ensure free way. The convoy reached the hospital by 12.10pm.
It took another 20 minutes for bed No. 30 in the Raja Rammohan Roy building of the hospital to be secured and cordoned off before Priyangshu could start writing the examination at 12.30pm, 45 minutes behind schedule. He, however, finished writing the test within the scheduled time.
Sources at the hospital said Priyangshu did not face any difficulty in writing the paper.
Senior police officers said they were ready to help in such cases in future too.
“All police stations across the city have been briefed to help students in the examination season as much as possible,” a senior cop said.
Another Madhyamik examinee and her mother were given a lift in a police vehicle on their way to the exam centre at Holy Child School in Burtolla on Wednesday. The cops spotted Antara Bakuli, a student of Bagbazar Multipurpose Girls’ School, crying on the road around 11.35am because she had got delayed.
Police helped another Madhyamik examinee, Nisha Mahato, to go home and collect her admit card and registration certificate, and return to the exam venue at PK Brahmachari Vidyapith.
