Students are forced to wear cardboard boxes on their heads during an exam at Bhagat Pre-University College in Haveri of Karnataka state CollectedEducation official termed the practice as inhumaneAn Indian school has forced its students to wear cardboard boxes on their heads during an exam and the images of the incident soon went viral on social media. The images were taken during a chemistry exam at Bhagat Pre-University College in Haveri of Karnataka state, reports BBC. The students who were seen bent over their exam papers wore boxes over their heads, with one side cut out, preventing them from peeping at their fellow students’ work. The boxes were only used as an experiment, were optional and had the students’ consent, he added. “"I also issued a notice to the college management and am contemplating disciplinary action against them for implementing this idea."

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 20, 2019 06:11 UTC