Arjun Tendulkar’s photo appears on a UP board admit card

No matter how hard master blaster Sachin Tendulkar tries to keep his son Arjun Tendulkar out of the spot light but time and again one finds his name appearing around. This time, Arjun is making news since his photograph was used in a admit card of a class 10 student of the Uttar Pradesh board. National daily Times of India accessed an admit card which bears Jr. Tendulkar’s photo while it has been issued to a student named Arjun Singh. This has come to light a day before 1.6 lakh students of Agra are to appear their board exams.

The copy of admit card that they uploaded on their website has a roll number 0025488 and has a passport size photograph of Arjun Tendulkar, pasted on it. The picture was also attested and signed by Ankur Inter College, Durga Nagar a private inter college, administration.

TOI quoted its source saying, “It’s a nexus of education mafia with private and public colleges operating in the entire state. Scores of admit cards with fake photographs have been pasted on admit cards, so that during examination someone else can appear for paper- ensuring that the actual candidate is passed.”

He said, “You can paste even Hafiz Saeed photo and no one will cross check at examination center, as there are no photographs printed or pasted on attendance sheet of examination center. The entire system is managed. And even if by chance, flying squad caught the impersonator during exam, than they won’t be able to establish his identity as the picture in admit cards are of some different person.” “For each such fake admit cards, candidates pay up to Rs 20,000- 30,000 to college administration,” he added.

The district inspector of schools of Agra Dinesh Kumar said, “A committee has been setup in the matter to probe it. Though we have found that, there is not a single photo in the attendance sheet of the examination center to cross check the student’s identification, where candidate Arjun other students will give their exam.”

The news paper made also several attempts to get comments from Ankur Inter college, Durga Nagar, Agra in the case, but couldn’t reach them.