After Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath directed the Board of Secondary Education to take all necessary steps to ensure that the upcoming examinations commencing in February remained copying-free, the board has issued guidelines in this regard.
As per the directive, 50 per cent of the invigilators at the examination centres will be from outside while teachers of the subjects to be examined will not be deputed as invigilators. Besides, no girl examinee will be frisked by a male invigilator.
Students and invigilators will not be allowed to use mobile, calculator or any other electronic device during the examination.
According to Secretary of the Board of Secondary Education Divyakant Shukla, each examination hall will have two invigilators while those having more than 40 students will have three invigilators. A releaser will be deployed after every five examination rooms.
“In the absence of the required number of invigilators at an exam centre, appointments will be made on seniority basis and priority will be given to the secondary teachers. Primary teachers will come last,” he said.
According to the guidelines, no invigilators, whose acquaintances and relatives are taking the examination, will be posted at that particular examination centre.
“In order to maintain fairness of examinations, it has been decided that in High School and Intermediate examinations of the council, teachers of the schools whose students are appearing at that centre will not be deputed there. Similarly, teachers of the schools run under the same management system will not be assigned the duty of invigilator at the prescribed examination centres,” Shukla said.
Invigilators will also have to ensure confidentiality and security of the question papers. They will also have to ensure that the candidates do not enter the examination hall with any material for copying, mobile phone, calculator, or any such electronic device.
The invigilators will inspect the examination halls and ensure that there is no text material, poster, chart, written instructions on the black board, which could be beneficial for the examinees.