Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination (Class X), being conducted by Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education, is beginning 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. “We have made special arrangements to help students and their parents reach their respective centres faster. We have identified big schools where large number of students are expected to sit for examinations and deployed sufficient number 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. At the same time, it is my appeal 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,” said Shashikant Satav, DCP (Traffic).

 

A total of 1,55,028 students 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. 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.