The newly-constituted regional office of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), Dehradun is conducting the Class X and XII board examination of the students under its jurisdiction for the first time. The examination is being conducted in 252 centres in the region which was carved out of Allahabad region last year.
The Regional Officer of CBSE Dehradun Manoj Kumar Srivastava told The Pioneer that 1,39,818 students are enrolled in the Class X examination from the region. In Class X 99,100 students enrolled themselves for school based examinations while 40,718 enrolled for board based system of examination. Similarly 1,17,115 students are enrolled for the Class XII examinations.
The examination of class XII is scheduled from March 02 to April 20. The scheme I (school based) class X examination are scheduled from March 10 while the scheme II (board based) examination is scheduled from March 02 to March 26. The regional officer said that no case of examination related malpractice is reported on first three days of the examination.
A new region of CBSE was created by bifurcating the erstwhile Allahabad region in the month of January last year. 1476 schools of the Uttarakhand and Western Uttarpradesh are under the jurisdiction of the newly constituted Dehradun region. Srivastava said that he is committed to take the Dehradun region of CBSE among the top regions of the country.