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Over 3.91 lakh students to appear in this year HSLC, High Madrasa exam

Over 3.91 lakh students to appear in this year HSLC, High Madrasa exam

| | 16 Feb 2017, 11:05 pm
Guwahati, Feb 16 (IBNS): Over 3.91 lakh students will appear in the High School Leaving Certificate (HSLC) and High Madrasa Examination, 2017 under the Board of Secondary Education, Assam (SEBA), which to be started from Friday across the state.


SEBA Secretary Kamal Gogoi said that, this year examination will be held at 855 examination centers in the state.

A total of  3,80,665 students will appear in HSLC examination, while 10,547 to appear in High Madrasa.

Meanwhile, to curb the malpractices in HSLC and High Madrasa examination, the state government has decided to enforce section 144 CrPC within a radius of 200 metres from the examination center in this year.

To enforce section 144 CrPC during the examination period, the state government had already issued order to all district administration.

Assam education minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that, the state government has taken several measures for smooth conduct of HSLC, High Madrasa and Higher Secondary examination this year.

“It is mandatory to install CCTV in every examination center and evaluation zone. Apart from it, all District Deputy Commissioners and Superintendent of Police will be involved in the entire examination process,” Himanta Biswa Sarma said.

The minister further said that, SEBA has introduced Optical Mark Reading (OMR) process in the examination first time.

“During the examination period, each Deputy Commissioner will be deployed a trust official other than the education department in every examination centre. If DC found any irregularities during the examination process, he would be powered to cancel the examination of the particular centre,” Sarma said.

The Assam minister also said that, any mobile phone’s use being strictly prohibited in the examination centre and if any irregularities found against teacher, then the state government will take action stern action against the violator.

To smoothly conduct the examination process, SEBA has deployed 120 Zonal Supervising Officers, 1100 Supervising Officers, 35 Scrutinizers, 10,000 Examiners and set up 27 Evaluation Zones across the state.

Meanwhile, reports said that, several students of different parts of the state would not able to collect admit cards from the concerned authorities till now.

(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)

Image: Screen Grab from YouTube

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