Rewari, February 9
The Haryana Board of School Education (HBSE) has made elaborate arrangements to render its ensuing examinations of middle, matric and senior secondary classes, free from the menace of copying.
This was stated by Mr Rakesh Gupta, Secretary of the HBSE, at a press conference here today. Mr Gupta informed that utmost care had been taken in the selection of the 2,000 – odd centre superintendents while appointments of invigilation staff had been made through computer system and even the seat arrangement of the candidates had also been computerised for the first time in the history of the board.
He further said that all 1,580 centres meant for the middle examination, which would commence from February 16, had been divided into 174 sectors to ensure effective inspection while five control rooms had been set up various district headquarters to ensure monitoring of all the centres.
Making a specific mention of certain innovative steps taken by the board to eliminate the menace of impersonation, Mr Gupta informed scanning system, which envisaged printing of the candidate’s photographs and signatures on the admit card, signature chart and individual certificates had been introduced, whereas specific security features, like High Resolution Border, U-Verify, Number Aar—Par, Copy N –check, Water marks etc, had been introduced for the first time to decimate the pernicious activities of the anti-social elements involved in the printing and supply of bogus certificates.
Similarly, to frustrate the evil designs of the external agents to make solved answers written on supplementary sheets available to their patronised examinees inside the examination centres, provision of 28 and 32 page single answer book to matric and senior secondary examinees respectively with the total cessation of supply of supplementary sheets had also been made.
As regards framing of cases against candidates found using unfair means during the examinations, Mr Gupta informed that no such candidate would be spared. Besides, the board officials would also see to it that no erring candidate got scot free at the time of award of final decree.
Mr Gupta was also critical of some private schools indulging in unscrupulous practices to gain cheap popularity in their respective areas of functioning. He informed that last year the Board had issued show cause notices for disaffiliation to about 200 such schools, while it had also written to the state Education Department to derecognise other 200-odd such private schools throughout the state.
The board would opt for more stringent measures if the authorities of such schools did not mend their ways in right earnest, he added. Making a mention of the HBSE’s resolve to excel the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in a holistic manner in times to come, he informed that this time the results of the middle examination, which would take place during this month of February, would be announced in the first week of April, 2004 while results of the matric and senior secondary examinations, which would be conducted in the month of March, 2004, would be made available by the second week of May, 2004 positively.
Earlier, the Deputy Commissioner, Mrs. Neerja Shekhar, also informed that the district administration would exercise utmost vigil and would take all essential measures to keep all the 75 examination centres in the district immune from external disturbance.
She said that Section 144 was being imposed around the centres for this purpose. Besides consequent upon the decision taken by the government to make the examination duty mandatory, neither any exemption nor any change in the duties assigned by the board would be allowed at the district headquarters.
