The Uttarakhand Vidhyalayi Shiksha Parishad (UVSP) popularly called Uttarakhand board has prepared an elaborate plan to make the upcoming board examinations of Class XII and X free from malpractices. The important examination is starting from March 2 this year. These examinations would end on March 25.
The evaluations of answer sheets would start after the end of examination and the process is expected to get completed by April 15.
The chairman of the UVSP, R K Kunwar said that a meeting of the examination committee of board was held at Ramnagar recently. In the meeting strict orders to prevent malpractices in the examinations were given. He informed that a mobile squad would be set in every district to prevent malpractices. Kunwar said that CCTV cameras would be installed in at hypersensitive examination centres.
In the meeting it was decided that the onus of security of the question papers would be on the custodian of the centre.
In view of the incident happened at Khatima last year in which answer sheets of 38 students got lost in transportation, the board has decided to deploy a police personnel along with the representative of education department while transporting the copies from examination centre to collection centre.
The examination of class X would start on March 2 while the examinations of Class XII would start on March 3. The examinations would be held in single shift from 10 am to 1 pm.
A total of 150279 candidates have been enrolled for class X while 121126 students are slated to appear in class XII examination this year.
The board has set up 1324 examination centres out of which 225 are sensitive while 27 are hyper sensitive.
The UVSP has claimed that all necessary arrangements for fair board examination would be taken and special arrangements would be made to prevent incidents of examination related malpractices.