UP Board Exams 2023: The Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad (UPMSP) is conducting the board examination for classes 10 and 12. The UP Board Exams 2023 commenced today (February 16, 2023). The UP government is ensuring a cheating-free examination and has rolled out various rules to maintain the decorum of the exam. The state government has made foolproof arrangements to ensure that there are no cheating incidents during this year's state board examinations.
National Security Act (NSA) to be imposed
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has also issued instructions to book those found involved in facilitating cheating during examinations under the National Security Act (NSA), the statement said. The NSA allows the detention of a person for up to a year without any charge. Over 31 lakh students are appearing for class 10 board exams and over 27 lakh for class 12 board exams, officials said here.
Two control rooms have been set up
Two control rooms have been set up in Lucknow for monitoring the examination centre while a control room has also been set up in the 75 districts each. An FIR will also be lodged against the invigilators and centre administrators involved in helping candidates in copying, it said. If any disturbance is found in the online monitoring of a centre, the nodal officer has been made responsible to inquire regarding the same by contacting the administrator of the concerned examination centre.
3 lacs CCTV camera installed
About 3 lacs CCTV cameras with voice recorders, Digital Video Recorder router devices and high-speed internet connections have been provided in about 1.43 lakh examination rooms of all examination centres. Arrangements have been made for live monitoring of all 8,753 examination centres through webcasting in all 75 districts and through the control and monitoring the centres at the state level.
STF deployed
The Special Task Force (STF) of state police and local intelligence has been activated to monitor all sensitive and highly-sensitive examination centres. There are 16 districts in the state which have been kept in the most sensitive category, which include Ballia, Azamgarh, Mau, Ghazipur, Chandauli, Jaunpur, Deoria, Gonda, Mathura, Aligarh, Mainpuri, Etah, Baghpat, Hardoi, Prayagraj and Kaushambi.
In view of the security arrangement of question papers at the examination centres, a room separate from the principal's room has been set up for securing the question papers in a double lock almirah, it said. This is for the first time that the question papers have been packed in tamper-proof envelopes in four layers, and stitched answer sheets have been arranged in all the districts.
Besides, the QR code and logo of the board have been printed on the answer sheets in four colours.
170 prisoners will also appear
This time, 170 prisoners will also appear in the UP board exams. Among them, 79 candidates are registered in high school and 91 in intermediate. Last time, 116 candidates were registered in high school and 116 in intermediate. The maximum number of prisoners appearing from District Jail Ghaziabad includes 23 high school and 26 intermediate candidates.
In Nishatganj Government school here, examinees were welcomed with flowers and the school was decorated with balloons. Adityanath appealed to students to appear in examinations without any tension and said that they will get positive results with their labour. The examinations will continue for 14 days and will end on March 4.
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