Nagpur: Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination (Class X), being conducted by Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education, started on Friday. Considering the traffic hassles created out of construction work, the traffic cops have appealed to students to start from home 40 minutes prior to examination time.
The Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education, headquartered in Pune, said that a total of 16,09,445 candidates are appearing for SSC examination in the state.
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A total of 60,800 students, including 30,075 girls, from Nagpur district will appear in the examination for which the Board has identified 676 centres. The examination will conclude on March 26. This year, the Board has allowed extra 10 minutes to students appearing for the examination, which comes as a great respite to the examinees. Suppose an examination ends at 2 pm, the students can stay till 2.10 pm and check their answer-sheets.
According to DCP (Traffic) Shashikant Satav, police have made special arrangements to help students and their parents reach their respective centres faster. Cops have identified big schools where a large number of students are expected to sit for examinations and deployed sufficient numbers of policemen there. The policemen will help students if they are stuck in the traffic. Because of construction works, several roads have been either diverted or converted into two way. Secondly, there can be VIP movement any time, like the city witnessed on Wednesday. Traffic cops have appealed to the students and their parents to start from home 40 minutes prior to exam time, so that they can reach their exam centres well in time.
Chintaman Wanjari, Nagpur Divisional Board Chairman has made clear that students whose session starts at 11 am will have to reach their respective rooms by 10.30, while those appearing at 3 pm will have to be at the examination centre by 2.30 pm. Students reaching after the distribution of question papers will be prohibited from entering the centre.
The Education Department has taken several steps to ensure error-free, copy-free examinations for which the responsibility has been entrusted with District Collectors. If any case of mass copying or unfair means found during the examinations, the Centre Heads, Head Master or teachers concerned would be held responsible, and action would be taken against them.
Dr Vipin Itankar, District Collector, convened a meeting, wherein he asked all the officials to strictly ensure that no copying is done at the examination centres. District Collector and Chief Executive Officer can pay sudden visits to examination centres. Board members and government officials too are expected to visit the centres and check the situation. The Xerox centres situated in 100 meters vicinity of examination centres will not be allowed to function to avoid the attempt from any miscreants regarding the circulation of question papers or other activities can be avoided.
Some students go into depression during the examination. To bring them out of the negative thoughts Board has appointed 10 counsellors who will guide students if needed. Students or parents are not expected to ask counsellors about examination details like examination centre, sitting arrangement or examination system. Numbers of the counsellors are available on the official website of the Board.
