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State Bureau, Lucknow. This time strict arrangements have been made for the UP Board examination starting from 18th February. The seal of the center administrator will be mandatory on the answer sheets so that complaints like taking copies outside and writing them can be completely stopped. There will be special surveillance on 222 sensitive examination centers across the state, while jammers will be installed at 20 centres.
On Friday, Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) of Basic and Secondary Education Department, Partha Sarathi Sen Sharma held a virtual meeting with all the Divisional Joint Education Directors, DDR and District School Inspectors and gave necessary instructions regarding the examination.
This time 53,37,778 students will appear in the high school and intermediate examinations. The exam will be conducted at 8033 centres. There will be strict monitoring to ensure that wrong question papers are not opened under any circumstances.
222 hypersensitive centers have been identified in the state, where special vigilance will be taken. Information about the 20 centers where jammers will be installed will be given two days before the exam. Those spreading rumors on internet media will also be kept under strict vigil.
Room inspectors had not yet been deployed in Meerut, Bijnor, Badaun, Shahjahanpur, Pilibhit, Shravasti, Etawah, Banda, Jaunpur, Ghazipur, Unnao, Pratapgarh, Barabanki, Lalitpur, Sonbhadra, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Baghpat, Chitrakoot and Sambhal. Instructions were given for deployment by Saturday.
Hapur District School Inspector explained the unavailability of the Sector Magistrate due to SIR (Special Intensive Review) duty. Instructions were given that any kind of negligence will not be tolerated in the examination.
Instructions have been given to form a team to conduct surprise inspection of the strong room at night for the security of question papers. Board Secretary Bhagwati Singh gave a presentation on the preparations. Director of Secondary Education Dr. Mahendra Dev also participated in the virtual meeting.
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There was discussion in the meeting regarding the orders of the High Court. ACS said that District School Inspectors should be alert in court cases. Whatever demand is appropriate, settle it in time so that unnecessary litigation can be avoided.
He asked the district school inspectors to focus more on inspecting schools and improving the quality of education instead of getting entangled in legal matters. The issue was also raised in the meeting that every year toppers emerge from unaided schools, whereas despite having better facilities in government and aided inter colleges, the results are not as per expectations. Emphasis was laid on motivating teachers and providing quality education.
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