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`Sitting squads' for sensitive towns

By Our Staff Reporter

GUNTUR, MARCH 15. Five sensitive towns in Guntur district will have `sitting squads' to oversee the conduct of the Secondary School Certificate public examination. The APSRTC has drawn a micro plan for deploying all their buses to ferry students to and from 232 examination centres.

Twelve flying squads, inclusive of two special squads, will monitor all aspects of the conduct of the examination all over the district in addition to the five `sitting squads' for 11 days from Wednesday, the District Education Officer, T. Lakshmi Rajyam, said on Tuesday. The `sitting squads' would ensure that there was no copying and get in touch with the flying squads if necessary, she said.

All question papers had been sent to the respective police stations for security. The answer sheets would be deposited with the post office for onward transmission to designated valuation centres through speed post. The State Observer, Sudhakar, reviewed the arrangements with the officials here and visited a couple of centres along with the District Education Officer. The examination would be held from 11.30 a.m. to 2 p.m. and an extra half an hour given to visually and physically handicapped persons (those who cannot write with their hands), the DEO told reporters.

No furniture

Two control rooms were set up in the district to monitor the situation. The District Medical and Health Office would keep a mobile medical van ready to meet any exigency.

There is no furniture for at least 30 per cent of the students to write the public examination and those from the corporate and private schools would face problem in taking the test sitting on the floor. The Department did not propose to make any arrangements "as it will cost in crores even to hire furniture temporarily", she said. If individual managements decided to arrange it would not object to it, she clarified. In all 53,627 students were expected to appear at the public examination out which 33,757 were regular students, 13,351 private candidates without any formal school education, while 6,522 would make a second attempt.

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