A record number of 6,34,493 students would appear the annual High School Certificate (HSC) examinations beginning from February 25.
In a Press release issued on Wednesday, Board of Secondary Education (BSE) President Dr Dakshya Prasad Nanda said 5,57,528 Regular students, 51,339 and 4626 Madhyama students have filled up their forms for the examinations.
“Keeping in view the high number of students appearing in the examinations this year, the Board has made extensive arrangements. We have selected 2737 examination centres for the Regular and Ex-Regular students while 56 centres have been selected for the Madhyama students for smooth conduct of the examinations,” said Nanda.
Besides, on the basis of the report of the high powered committee on the safety of question papers, 350 nodal centres have been selected of which 283 centres have been set up in the High Schools, 21 centres at the local police stations and one at the Tehsil office, Nanda said. He also said arrangements have been made to install CCTV cameras at the sensitive centres.
To tighten the security of the examination centres, the Board has sought the help of the local police, the BSE president said, adding that steps had been taken to keep people away from 200-metre radius of the centre to ensure that the students appear in the examination without any noise or disturbances.The Board has cancelled the examinations centres where incidents of malpractice were reported last year.
We have made elaborate arrangements for the examinations under the directive supervision of the district Collectors and SPs,” Nanda informed.