The education department here is gearing itself for successfully conducting the board examinations. These examinations which would be conducted by the Uttarakhand Vidyalayi Shiksha Parishad, Ramnagar would start from March 27. A total of 1,74,862 students are enrolled for class X, while 1,39,196 candidates are slated to appear in the class XII examination.
Informing about the preparations for examinations the Secondary Education Director CS Gwal told The Pioneer that 1,255 examination centres have been set up in all the 13 districts of the State. He said that strict vigil would be maintained to prevent cheating and other malpractices and Chief Education Officers (CEOs) and District Education Officers (DEOs) of the state have been asked to make all arrangements for conducting fair examinations.
Gwal said that the CEOs have been asked to form flying squads to prevent incidents of copying in board examinations. He said apart from Examination Observers at the district level the education directorate would also send Central Observers for monitoring the examinations.
The board examinations would be held from March 27 to April 17 and 31 collection centres have been set up in the state where the copies of the answer sheets would be collected. These copies would be checked from April 22 to May 1 at 28 evaluation centres across the state. The board has deployed more than 10,000 examiners for evaluating the answer sheets of the students.
In Dehradun district 132 centres have been set up for class X examinations where 18,150 students would give the examination while 14,553 students of class XII would appear at 120 centres. District Magistrate of Dehradun BVRC Purushottam has deployed nine sector magistrates for these examinations. DEO secondary CN Kala informed that five flying squads have been set up in the district; he said that 18 centres (nine sensitive and nine hyper sensitive) have been marked as critical where special observers would be deployed as per the directive of the board. He said that Government Inter College (GIC) Herbertpur, Saraswati Vidya Mandir Babugarh Vikasnagar, DAV Inter College Karanpur, Bharat Mandir Inter College Rishikesh, IDPl Inter College Rishikesh, Asharam Inter College Vikasnagar, MKP Inter College Dehradun, Govardhan Shishu Mandir Dharampur and GIC Chidderwala have been declared as hyper sensitive centres in the district.