At UP Boards this time, answer sheets with colour & codes

Noida: Even as coloured answer sheets with bar codes, a first such measure, will be incorporated in UP Board exams this year which will begin from February 16 and end on March 4, both GB Nagar and Ghaziabad are gearing up with the final preparations. While GPS-fitted and tracked vehicles will carry question papers to the exam centres from the district headquarters at Surajpur, a district control room with toll-free numbers 1800-180-5310 and 1800-180-5312 to address exam related queries and resolutions will monitor exam centres and strongrooms (where question papers will be kept).
The exam centres will be under live webcast through CCTV surveillance and voice recorders.
Also, over 2,000 manpower will be deployed, including 24x7 police deployment, at each exam centre and two invigilators per exam room.
For the specially-abled students, a home centre facility equipped with ramps and sidebars is also in the pipeline.
Overall, 90,000 students from both classes 10 and 12 are set to appear for the exams from both districts this year.
“We will be getting coloured answer sheets this time with bar codes as against the earlier practice of white coloured answer sheets. This is being done to prevent cheating and misuse of the answer sheets. Also, the vehicles which will carry the question paper to the exam centres will be GPS tracked as the device will be fitted in them. This way if the vehicle stops midway unauthorised, then it can be tracked and checked for the reasons,” said Dharamveer Singh, GB Nagar district inspector of schools (DIOS).
Singh also apprised that as against 152 schools last year, 13 more schools have been affiliated with the UP board this year in GB Nagar taking the total number of schools to 165 in the district now. The exams will be held across 57 centres across the district.
In Ghaziabad, students from more than 200 schools will give the exams across 66 centres.
“The exams will be held under CCTV surveillance and voice recorders per exam centre which will be live webcast and monitored through the district control room,” said Singh.
While special stress is being laid on the security of girls and women staff, mobile teams of the education department and centre administrator will be on ground to check smooth conduct of the exams.
A total of 41,944 eligible students including 22,433 of class 10 and 19,511 of class 12 will give the exams from 165 schools across 57 centres in GB Nagar.
The figures in Ghaziabad include a total of 52,934 eligible students where 28,459 students will appear for class 10 exams and 24,475 students of class 12 boards this year. “We have made all preparations where all exam centres will be under 24x7 deployment of police personnel to maintain law and order,” said Rajesh Kumar Srivas DIOS Ghaziabad.