UP Board exam preparation going in on full swing

PRAYAGRAJ, March 14 (HS): The UP board high school and intermediate examination 2021 will commence from April 24. The process of dispatching the necessary answer-sheets to all 75 districts has already been kicked off.

UP Board Secretary Divya Kant Shukla while speaking to HS informed that all district inspector of schools (DIOSs) to send their recommendations regarding the appointment of Centre managers and additional Centre managers to Divisional Joint Directors (Education) concerned and UP Board headquarters besides the respective Regional Offices of UP Board by March 30. (DIoS) have been asked to provide information regarding the count of exam centres in their districts, the number of centre managers and additional centre managers, class invigilators and the number of other staff members needed along with the count of CCTV cameras at each centre among others.

UP Board secretary Divya Kant Shukla said that the DIoS’s have also been asked to keep a full record of teachers being deputed as class invigilators for the exams. For performing these duties, the officials have been asked to ensure that in case of shortage of regular teachers for being deputed, priority is given to retired secondary schools first followed by those from upper primary schools and then primary schools. Teachers whose wards or kin are appearing in the exams at a centre are to be kept away from all such duties, the officials explained.
A total of 56,03,813 students including 29,94,312 for High School and 26,09,501 for Intermediate have registered for this year’s board exams. Instructions for the appointment of centre managers and invigilators for conducting the exams are also being sent to all districts. Officials said that likewise, women invigilators are to be deputed at centres having all-girl examinees or in the majority. As for deputing centre managers, at centres being set up in government and government-aided and recognized unaided schools, the principals of those very institutions are to be mandatorily be made the centre managers barring those principals who have been barred from performing all duties by Principals’ Council.