The Uttar Pradesh Government headed by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is leaving no stone unturned to ensure fair board examinations.
He has directed the UP Board of Secondary Education to take all necessary steps to ensure that the upcoming board examinations starting in February are free of copying.
According to the guidelines, 50 per cent of the invigilators at examination centres will be from outside while teachers of the subject of the exam will not be put on duty as an invigilator.
Besides, no girl examinee will be frisked by a male invigilator and the students and invigilators will also not be allowed to use mobile, calculator or any other electronic device during the examination.
Secretary, UP Board of Secondary Education, Divyakant Shukla, said in a statement on Saturday that each examination hall will have two invigilators while those having more than 40 students will have three invigilators.
A releaser will be deployed after every five examination rooms. In the absence of the required number of invigilators at an exam centre, appointments will be made on seniority basis with priority to be given to the secondary teachers while primary teachers will come last, he said.
The guidelines further state that female invigilators will be deployed at centres where examination of girls is held. No teacher shall be appointed at a particular examination centre on his or her request for vested interest.
As per the guidelines, no invigilator, whose acquaintances and relatives are taking the examination, will be posted at that particular examination centre. The list of teachers for deployment as invigilators at examination centres will be prepared by the concerned school principal or centre administrator and sent to the district inspector of schools.
In order to maintain fairness of examinations, it has been decided that in the high school and intermediate examinations of the council, teachers of the schools whose students are appearing at that centre will not be deployed at the centre. Similarly, the teachers of the schools run under the same management system will not be assigned the duty of invigilator at the prescribed examination centres.
Invigilators will also have to ensure confidentiality and security of the question papers as well as ensure that the candidates do not enter the examination hall with any material for copying, mobile phone, calculator, or any such electronic device.
The invigilator will inspect the examination hall and ensure that there is no text material, poster, chart, written instructions on the black board, which could be beneficial for the examinees.