Bhubaneswar: With the annual Matriculation examination set to begin in Odisha on Friday, the Board of Secondary Education (BSE) has taken concrete steps to prevent malpractice and question leak.
Official sources said that a total of 5,12,437 students across the state will take the examination this time. The Class X exam, to be conducted at 3,029 centres spread over 30 districts of the state, will continue till March 6.
On the opening day of the annual exam, students will appear for the First Language subjects including Odia/Bengali/Hindi/Urdu/Telugu/English.
While 314 nodal centres have been set up, the exam centres will be equipped with CCTV cameras for strict monitoring. The Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled cameras have been installed at the exam centres and nodal centres.
While four-tier squads have been formed to check malpractice, there will be a control room at the board’s headquarters to oversee real-time proceedings through live streaming. The board officials will monitor exam operations from the control room.
Each question paper will carry a unique serial number to trace any possible leaks. The question papers have been despatched to exam centres on February 12 and reached the exam centres by February 19.
The evaluation will start from March 19. Each district will have designated nodal centers for smooth conduct of the exam and evaluation procedures.
