The Board of Secondary Education (BSE) that conducts the matriculation examination in Odisha is determined to completely curb the menace of malpractices adopted by students while taking the exam.
“Putting foolproof measures in place, we have prevented mass copying across the State to a great extent. However, stray cases of malpractice reported in some centres are checked by our alert squads deployed at the examination centres,” said BSE Examination Controller N. R. Mohanty.
Decreasing numbers
On the first day of the matriculation examination on Tuesday, only 94 students were booked for malpractice. The number is decreasing every year, a BSE official said, adding that at least 300 students were booked for malpractice on the first day of the 2015 examination, which had come down to 150 in 2016.
Apart from the invigilators at the centre, the BSE is deploying a three-tier squad to prevent students from adopting unfair means during the examination.
The squads are formed at the zonal, district and circle levels to put an end to malpractices, the BSE source said.
6 lakh appear for exam
A little over six lakh students are appearing for this year’s examination at over 3,000 centres spread across the 30 districts of the State.
The fortnight-long examination will continue up to March 13.
