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To write board exams, students of TN government schools would not travel more than 10kms
Posted on: 23/Nov/2018 10:24:44 AM
The state of Tamil Nadu has got around 3000 government higher secondary schools. It is now revealed that the students studying plus-1 and plus-1 in these schools would not travel more than 10km to write their board examinations in the month of March in 2019. In the last 2 years, the Directorate of Government Examinations or DGE has awarded more new examination centres to more than 10% of government higher secondary schools in TN. It must be taken into account that in the month of March in 2017, DGE made many heads turn when it had set up as many as 2427 examination centres for around 9lakh students. The school education department increased the number of examination centres in TN to 2794 for the students of plus-1 and plus-2. This increase in the exam centres took place when the school education department introduced board exams for plus-1 students. One important point is in the previous year roughly around 220 government higher secondary schools got additional examination centres. The sources have confirmed that over 80 government schools in TN would get new examination centres in many remote places belonging to Tamil Nadu.
The superb piece of information is to ensure that students do not have to travel more than 10 km to write their board examinations, DGE has awarded exam centres to 10 % of total government schools. The main advantage is it would save the travel time for the students on the examination day. In the 2019 approximately 18 lakh students would be writing their plus-1 and plus-2 board examinations in Tamil Nadu. There must be a minimum of 150 students at the examination centre and this was as per the norms. It is now brought out that in this 2018 there were some government schools in remote places that got centres with less than 100 students also.
There were few complaints from the headmasters of schools regarding the strength of the government higher secondary schools that was declining. The headmasters also welcomed the decision to allot additional exam centres to the government schools. It is worthy to note that the schools that had student strength of more than 1000 have been reduced to few hundreds.
