THE UTTAR Pradesh Board examinations for Class 10 and 12 will commence from Thursday and conclude on March 9. The examinations, which according to the Board used to take more than a month before 2017, would be concluded within 12 working days and be held at 8,265 examination centres across the state, officials said on Wednesday.
In the examinations for Class 10, 29.47 lakh students will take part (15.71 lakh male and 13.76 female), and for class 12, 25.77 lakh students (14.28 lakh male and 11.49 female) students will take part. Out of the total 55.25 lakh students, 53.60 lakh will come through institutions and 1.64 lakh individual candidates will appear.
“Due to effective prevention of cheating, 1.64 lakh students have been registered as individual candidates in 2024, whereas in 2017 this number was 3,53,106. Under this, instead of 1,50,209 candidates who registered from outside states in 2017, the number of candidates from outside states/other boards has also reduced to only 4,905 in 2024,” said an official statement issued by the Board.
“Under the present government, the determination of examination centres was done online through software, making full use of their holding capacities. Before 2017, more than 12,000 centres were formed, but due to the online centre determination system, fewer examination centres were formed (8,265 in the 2024 examination), which made their supervision and inspection easier,” said the statement.
The statement said that the process adopted in the past years has been further strengthened to make the board exams fair and free from cheating. “At the state level, along with the Directorate of Secondary Education, Lucknow, Command and Control Centres have also been established in the Vidya Samiksha Kendra, Lucknow and Council Headquarters, Prayagraj and five regional offices, through which live monitoring of all the examination centres and district level control and monitoring centres of the state can be done. Monitoring will be done,” said the statement.
“For quick resolution of complaints of candidates and the public, two helpline numbers (1800 180 6607/8) and two help numbers (1800 180 5310/12) have also been established to resolve queries of candidates and for counselling,” said the statement.
The statement also said that “command and control centre, helpline and other arrangements have been made at the district level too”. “Through these, live monitoring of all the examination centres of the district will be done. An administrative officer nominated by the District Magistrate has been deployed to operate the District Control Centre,” it said.
“To curb the possibilities of cheating, the process of opening the question papers will be done under the surveillance of CCTV cameras and arrangements have been made for armed forces and live CCTV cameras for 24-hour surveillance at the collection centres and strong rooms. Arrangements have been made for morning inspection of the strong room by a mobile team,” it said.
“The administration in districts has also been directed to take all other precautionary measures, including invoking Section 144 to prevent gathering of anti-social elements or outsiders within a radius of 100 metres around the examination centres and also outside if necessary,” it said.
