The district education department of Dehradun is gearing itself for successfully conducting the board examinations which are slated from March 27. The Chief Education Officer (CEO) of the district S P Khali took a meeting of District Education Officer (DEO) and all the Block Education Officers (BEO’s) at his office on Tuesday and finalised the preparations.
Khali ordered the BEO’s to finalise the lists of the Custodians, central superintendents and special observers for the examination centres. The Uttarakhand Vidhyalayi Shiksha Parishad would take the board examinations for classes X and XII from March 27 to April 17. Khali told The Pioneer that 17556 regular students and 594 private students would take part in class X examinations in the district, while 13420 regular and 933 private students would participate in Class XII examinations in the district.
He said the examinations would take place in 132 centres; 9 exam centres in the district are marked as sensitive while 9 centres are marked as hyper sensitive. Special observers are posted apart from centre superintendents in these sensitive and hyper sensitive examination centres.