KL NEWS NETWORK
SRINAGAR
Class 12th examinations have commenced in the Kashmir Valley amid heightened security arrangements.
Over 48,000 students will sit for the annual examinations starting today. While more than 55,000 students will sit for the class 10th examination which will commence tomorrow.
While elaborate security arrangements have been put in place, for the first time the exam materials will be transported by the police to the examination centres.
“The question papers will be carried by the police to the centres,” Board of School Education chairman Zahoor Ahmad Chatt had told newsmen. “The Board has put the centres in the sensitive and hypersensitive categories.”
The state government has promised fool proof security and transport arrangements, while a “special relaxation” of 50 per cent of syllabus has been given to students who will appear for exams in November.
Earlier, a section of students were opposed to the government’s decision to hold the exams in November, the government, however, offered to hold the exams in March 2017 too, as many students were arrested or wounded in the agitation. The authorities also offered to conduct the examinations covering just 50 per cent of the syllabus to make up for the classes lost due to the uprising that left 93 civilians dead and over 10,000 injured.
On Saturday, during a meeting of police and education officials, S P Vaid, Special DGP, (coordination) law and order, said extra care should be taken at centres categorised as sensitive. “Fool proof security and transport plans have been put in place in the sensitive and far-flung areas.”
Section 144, which bars assembly of more than four persons has been in place at and around all centres. Special police squads will monitor the situation.
Meanwhile, the private schools association of Kashmir has announced that all the students from class 1st to 9th and 11th will be provisionally promoted to next class.
