The District Magistrate of Dehradun, Ravinath Raman, chaired a meeting of all the examination centre superintendents and custodians of the Uttarakhand Vidhyalayi Shiksha Parishad (UVSP) examination at Gandhi Inter College here on Monday. The Board examination of Classes X and XII of the USVP Board is scheduled from March 10 to April 01.
The DM asked the designated superintendents and custodians to carry out their duties with honesty and commitment. He assured them of full support of the district administration in this regard. Raman said that they should go through the guidelines of the UVSP thoroughly and ensure their proper implementation. He said that special magisterial powers are delegated to the centre superintendents, which they can exercise in their examination centres to conduct peaceful and malpractice-free examinations.
The DM said that the Sub-Divisional Magistrates (SDM) and the tehsildars would be appointed as sector magistrates to prevent outside intervention in the examination centres. He asked the Chief Education Officer (CEO) to contact the Additional District Magistrate (ADM) for appointment of sector and zonal magistrates for the examinations. Raman said that the flying squads should be given immediate entry into the examination centres and the Prantiya Rakshak Dal (PRD) jawans should be appointed as guards in the schools which do not have them.
He ordered to take extra precaution at the sensitive and hyper-sensitive centres and asked the senior officers to ensure deployment of additional forces in such centres. The District Magistrate asked the centre superintendents to procure the question papers of the examination on March 7. He said that the use of high decibel sound systems around the examination centres is prohibited. The district administration has constituted a control room at the office of the CEO. The DM asked the CEO to provide the telephone no (0135-2787027) to all the persons concerned.
Giving a detailed account of preparation for the Board examination, the CEO, S P Khali said that the bundles of answer-sheets should be deposited at the designated collection centres immediately after the examinations. He informed that 16,619 regular and 441 private students would participate in the Class X examination in the district. Similarly, 13,895 regular and 830 private students would take part in Class XII examination. Khali said that these examinations would be conducted in 132 examination centres in the district.
The meeting was attended by City Magistrate l N Mishra, District Education Officer (DEO) secondary C N Kala, DEO Primary Parmendra Saklani and others.