Policy for exam centres of UVSP formulated

The schools having more than 75 students in the class X and XII board examinations of Uttarakhand Vidhyalayi Shiksha Parishad (UVSP) would be given the benefit of being the examination centres of UVSP in the board examination of 2019.  Releasing the draft of a policy formulated for the board examination, the education secretary, Bhupinder Kaur Aulakh, said that in the schools where the number of examinees is less than 75, the facility of examination centre should be provided in the nearby school. If there are more than 1200 examinees at centres than such centres should be split in two centres and under no circumstances temporary arrangements like tents should be erected to conduct the examinations.

In her letter directed to the director secondary education, Aulakh mentions that the physically disabled students should be provided nearest examination centres with facility to write examination on the ground floor.

In the order, the secretary said that that in every examination centre, a centre in-charge, examination in-charge and two teachers as assistant examination in-charge should be deputed and they should be kept free from the duty of invigilator. The invigilators should be deployed from the schools located in a periphery of 8 kms.

She said that the private examinees should be provided centres at schools located at Block or Tehsil level. For effective administrative control, no school should be constituted as an examination centre for private candidates only. Instructions have been issued that the examination centres of the registered private students should not be interchanged and the schools having good image should be selected for examination centre. 

The Education officers have been asked to keep things like past record, place where it is situated, availability of suitable facilities and overall image of the school for selection as examination centre.  It has been directed that the examinations centres should be at a places where there are sufficient transport and communication facilities and such schools should have boundary walls and have adequate arrangements for safe upkeep of question and answer sheets without compromising the secrecy of the examinations.

In the draft, standards have been set for identifying sensitive and ultra sensitive examination centres. The principal of the schools being identified as sensitive and ultra sensitive should be made the examination superintendent of the examination centre.

Centres where complaints of cheating has been received should be declared as sensitive and centres where in past anti-social elements had violated the sanctity of the examinations process should be identified as Ultra Sensitive.