AClass X girl student was caught while cheating at Pandit Purvanand Tiwari Inter College in Udham Singh Nagar on Wednesday. With this six students have been booked for adopting unfair means in the ongoing board examination of Uttarakhand Vidhyalayi Shiksha Parishad (UVSP). Incidentally this is the first case of cheating involving a female student in the State in this year’s examination.
The board examinations of UVSP started on March 10 in 1304 examination centres across the state. In class XII examination 143915 students are enrolled while in class X examinations 173226 students are listed to appear. The board has taken stringent measures to prevent malpractices during the examination. The invigilators and flying squads have caught four students from Udham Singh Nagar district while one student each from Haridwar and Nainital till Wednesday. The Director Secondary education R K Kunwar told The Pioneer that best possible security measures are being taken to conduct the board examination in free and fair manner. The department has categorised 252 examination centre as sensitive while 34 are in hyper sensitive category.
In Dehradun district no case of unfair practice has been reported till date. The Chief Education Officer (CEO) of Dehradun, S P Khali told The Pioneer not even a single student was found involved in any form of examination malpractice in the district. He attributed this to increased vigil and changed pattern of examination which offers very little time for a student to engage in cheating.