Don’t Panic, Write Exams Without Fear – Udupi DC Jagadeesh tells SSLC Students
Udupi: Deputy Commissioner G Jagadeesh inspected the SSLC examination centres in Udupi on June 24.
Deputy Commissioner G Jagadeesh visited the Government High School, Volakadu and inspected the examination centre sanitising system, thermal screening system etc.
Speaking to the media persons, DC Jagadeesh said that the district administration and the department of public instruction had taken all the necessary precautionary measures for the smooth conduct of SSLC examinations from 25 June. Thirteen thousand five hundred twenty-six students are answering the exams in 51 centres.
A total of 589 students who are studying in Udupi and had returned to their native places following Covid-19 will write their exams in the centres identified outside the district at their native places.
The Department of Public Instructions has made all the preparations for the examination and has taken additional precautions by following the COVID-19 protocol. Students will have to wear face masks and use hand sanitisers on their arrival at the examination centres.
They will have to follow social distancing norms and will be subjected to body temperature screening using thermal scanners. Students will be allowed to enter the examination centres in queues. Places for students to stand in the line have been marked to check their health. One thermal scanner for every 200 students is available to check the temperature. Those having high temperature will be made to answer the examinations in a separate room, he said.
As many as ten additional examination centres have been identified in the district. Eighty-two private buses have been procured from private schools to transport students appearing for the exams. The department will provide only the fuel cost for the buses, he said.
Students will be allowed inside the hall only after undergoing thermal scanning. If any student found suffering from fever, cold, then she/he will be accommodated in a separate room to answer the exams.
DC Jagadeesh wished good luck to the students and advised them to be confident while writing the first Board examinations of their lives.