Bhubaneswar, Feb. 15 -- Bhubaneswar: While Odisha School and Mass Education department is all geared up to ensure zero failure rate (Zero F) in the annual HSC Examinations this year, in a shocking development, free books meant for class-10 SC/ST students were distributed today - just 3 days before the commencement of the Matric exams.

On one hand, while the Board of Secondary Education (BSE) has started dispatching question booklets to the exam centres, OTV today found out that teachers of various schools were gathered at Collegiate School in Cuttack to collect books for ST/ST students of their schools.

Asked about the incident, a school teacher of SS High School in Kakudia Narasinghapur expressed concerns and said that instead of givin...