UP Board exams 2021: Centres for girls in 5km school radius
Representative imageLUCKNOW: Girl students due to appear in UP board class 10 and 12 examinations next year have some news to cheer in advance. The state government has made it mandatory to allot them examination centre within a radius of five kilometre from their school if not in their own school.
In another first, boys will not allowed to appear in an all girls' school which is made examination centre. Additional chief secretary (secondary education) Aradhana Shukla, said, "At a time when the government has launched Mission Shakti for security of women, we too decided to help our girls appearing in the exam by allotting them a centre closest from their original institution." She added, even differently-abled candidates will be given self-centres or centres within five kilometre radius.
Releasing the guidelines for allotment of centres for UP Board's class 10 and 12 exams to be held in 2021, the secondary education department has also put a cap on the number of students appearing at an examination centre as per the Covid-19 protocol. Now, a minimum of 150 students (in both shifts) can appear in exam on a day at one examination centre, instead of 300 in pre-Covid times.
Similarly, maximum 800 students can appear in exams at a centre in a day, against 1,200 earlier.
In another first, boys will not allowed to appear in an all girls' school which is made examination centre. Additional chief secretary (secondary education) Aradhana Shukla, said, "At a time when the government has launched Mission Shakti for security of women, we too decided to help our girls appearing in the exam by allotting them a centre closest from their original institution." She added, even differently-abled candidates will be given self-centres or centres within five kilometre radius.
Releasing the guidelines for allotment of centres for UP Board's class 10 and 12 exams to be held in 2021, the secondary education department has also put a cap on the number of students appearing at an examination centre as per the Covid-19 protocol. Now, a minimum of 150 students (in both shifts) can appear in exam on a day at one examination centre, instead of 300 in pre-Covid times.
Similarly, maximum 800 students can appear in exams at a centre in a day, against 1,200 earlier.
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