Over 1.62 lakh students to appear at 1,536 centres in Nagpur Division
Nagpur: With Covid-19 pandemic on the decline, the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education will be holding Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC) examination (Class XII) off-line starting from Friday, March 4. It is for the first time, the Board has adopted the ‘My College, My Centre’ system for the HSC exam.
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In Nagpur Division, 1,62,519 students will be appearing in the examination at 1,536 centres. Of the total centres, 477 will be main centres while 1,059 will act as sub-centres. HSC examination will begin on Friday with English paper and conclude on April 7, 2022.
To curb use of unfair means during the exam, the administration has appointed flying squads and categorised them into two — ‘A’ and ‘B’. Six squads have been appointed by the Board. Apart from the six squads, there will be 42 teams deployed by District Collector and Police to keep check on such unwanted incidents. Flying squads will be led by Hema Bade, Deputy Collector (Land Acquisition); Madhuri Tikhe, Deputy Collector (Land Acquisition) (General); A S Jadhav, Naib Tehsildar; Arvind Jaiswal, Naib Tehsildar; Yogita Yadav, Naib Tehsildar (Nazul), District Office.
Most students have welcomed the off-line examinations. It was in 2020, the Board had conducted the examination offline. It had to discontinue the examination midway due to the outbreak of the Corona pandemic in March and imposition of nation-wide lockdown. As the situation got worse, the remaining papers were never held.
Finally, the Board had to make the evaluation of remaining papers on the basis of the performance of the students in earlier examinations. In 2021, when the country was on the verge of being hit by a second wave of the pandemic, again the Government decided not to hold the examination. Students were given marks as per their performance in the term examinations conducted by their respective institutions. Several students had expressed displeasure over the decision of cancelling the examination as they had prepared a lot.
