ONGOLE : Prakasam district authorities are busy in making necessary arrangements for the Intermediate examinations, which are going to start from March 1 to 20.
So far the officials have set up 69 examination centres across the district. Simultaneously, the district authorities have taken measures to improve the pass percentage of the district through the implementation of ‘Jaye Bhava’, a special academic study programme in which every student will be provided with a special study material consisting of 50 very important questions in each subject.
In line with the district collector guidelines, the authorities have made arrangements for teaching the special study material in the remaining days before the exams.
As many as 44,733 students including 21,570 first-year and 23,163 second-year students are going to appear for the exams. Exams will be conducted from 9 AM to 12 PM and the students are advised to reach the examination centres by 8.30 AM.
District Collector AS Dinesh Kumar has conducted a special review and coordination meeting recently with all the district authorities concerned and inquired about the measures taken for the Intermediate exams. Further, the Collector directed the authorities to ensure transportation to all exam centres through RTC bus services, so the students will reach their examination centres in advance. “Take necessary steps to provide sitting arrangements, power supply, drinking water and toilet facilities for the students in all examination centres. Coordinate with the district officials of electricity, medical and health, transport and postal departments to ensure smooth conduct of the exams,” Collector added.
Intermediate Board authorities are making arrangements to provide ORS packets, along with an auxiliary nurse midwife (ANM) at every examination centre.
During the exams, Section 144 will be imposed at all the exam centres and xerox points will remain closed from 8 AM to 5 PM. On the other hand, the Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) will appoint sitting squads and 5 flying squads to conduct inspections to curtail malpractice in the examination centres.
Speaking to TNIE on Monday, the Board of Intermediate Education regional inspection officer (RIO) said, “We are moving ahead with a target pass percentage of 70- 80 % this year which is higher than last year’s 54 %. To achieve this target, we have been implementing the ‘ ‘Success-50/Jaye Bhava’ special preparation programme for all the intermediate students studying in social welfare, residential, government junior colleges and KGBVs. These study materials are prepared for each subject by some of our senior subject experts. We hope it will yield an expected high pass percentage this year.”
The Prakasam RIO said, “we have identified five sensitive and problematic exam centres across the district. Police security will be arranged at those centres. Measures have been taken to prevent any and all kinds of malpractice.”