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RTC special buses for SSC exam

By Our Special Correspondent

VIJAYAWADA, MARCH 15. Priority will be given to transporting students appearing for SSC public examinations in Krishna district. The APSRTC will operate special services wherever required to enable them to reach their centres in time.

As the mercury is soaring, the Krishna district administration has decided to deploy mobile medical teams to help students in the event of emergencies or necessity of first aid. Adequate care has been taken to provide safe drinking water at all 252 centres where 54,427 students will take their examination, according to the District Educational Officer, A. Satyanarayana Reddy. Steps have been taken to ensure that infrastructure, including benches and tables, are in place.

The DEO has been conducting revenue division-level training for the 4,000-odd staff and officials involved in the conduct of the examinations. Though an alternative set of question papers has been kept in reserve, usually the first set of papers will be supplied to the students.

While the question papers are sealed and kept date-wise and subject-wise in as many as 55 police stations and five treasuries in the district, the question nagging the officials is how safe are the question papers in police stations, particularly in the wake of an attack on the Chilakaluripet police station by Maoists. Of course, Krishna district is not affected by naxalite movement as yet.

Precautionary measure

Mr. Reddy says that 36,400-odd regular students and 18,000-odd private students are appearing for the examinations in the district, which will last till March 31.

The examination commences at 11.30 a.m. and ends at 2 p.m. everyday.

The DEO is confident that measures planned to the last detail will prevent malpractice. Yet, as a precaution, 10 flying squads and 30 sitting squads have been deployed.

Every centre will have a chief superintendent and a departmental officer to oversee the conduct of the examination, while one invigilator has been appointed for every 20 students.

The district Collector, K. Prabhakar Reddy, clamped Section 144 of the IPC around all examination centres.

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