One lakh seventy six thousand four hundred and eighty five candidates from seven districts under the Garhwal region will appear in the examinations of the Uttarakhand Vidhyalayi Siksha Parishad Board that would commence on Tuesday and end on 1 April. The candidates will appear in the 761 examination centres spread across the region and out of these 104 centres have been declared sensitive and 30 highly sensitive in the region.
Additional Director Education Garhwal region Ram Krishan Uniyal told The Pioneer that 93,882 candidates will appear in High School examination which includes 44,265 boys and 44,174 girls (regular) and 2,404 boys and 1,219 girls (private). In Intermediate examination, 82,603 candidates will appear from the region which includes boys 39149 and girls 37187 (regular) and 3774 boys and 2454 girls (private).
Uniyal said that to conduct the examination, there are 761 examination centres across the region out of which 44 are single and 719 are joint examination centres. Uniyal said 104 are identified as sensitive and 30 highly sensitive. The most sensitive centre includes seven in Haridwar district, nine in Dehradun, four in Tehri, seven in Pauri and three in Rudraprayag district, while among the sensitive centres 26 are in Chamoli, 23 in Haridwar, 15 in Tehri, 13 in Rudraprayag, nine in Dehradun, eight in Pauri and 10 in Uttarkashi districts.
He further said that every district has its control room that is separate from the one set up in the AD Education Office at the regional headquarter Pauri. To check the copying during the examination, every concerned district of the region has four flying squads at the district level. Besides, every block of the district has its own flying squad. One flying squad has been formed at the regional level under the aegis of additional director education. Strict instruction has been issued to all examination superintendents to ensure that the examination is free from unfair means.