The Governor of Uttarakhand, Dr K K Paul has said that the students scoring highest marks in Class X and XII examinations of Uttarakhand Board would be felicitated with ‘Governor’s Award’. The Governor also gave his best wishes to all the students of Class X and XII of Uttarakhand Vidhyalayi Shiksha Parishad (UVSP) for their examinations which are starting on Thursday. He said that they should study with full concentration and show their talent in the examination to score good marks.
A total of 168022 and 135650 candidates are enrolled in class X and XII examinations respectively. The UVSP has set up 1317 examination centres in the state out of these 245 examination centres are categorized as sensitive while 26 are under hyper sensitive category. The Uttarakhand board would take the services of more than 22000 teachers for invigilation duties during the examination.
To prevent the incidences of cheating the block, district, board and headquarter level flying squads are constituted.
The class XII examination would end on April 04 while the students of Class X would end their examination on April 02 with the question paper of Sanskrit.
The UVSP would give extra time to the dyslexia and spastic candidates and those suffering from vision impairment.
These candidates would be given 40 minutes extra in the examination of 2 hours while in the examination of 2.30 hours and 3 hours, 50 minutes and one hour would be given extra respectively. Chief minister Harish Rawat has also wished the students luck for their board exams.