CUTTACK: The results of Orissa annual High School Certificate (HSC) examination conducted by the state Board of Secondary Education would be declared at 9 a.m. on May 29, said board secretary Minaketan Pani on Thursday.

"The compilation, tabulation and printing of result booklets are over," Mr. Pani told newsmen here. But as per the direction of the Orissa High Court, the results of wonder kid Millennium Bismay would be kept withheld. The High Court on the eve of examination in March had permitted the eight-year-old boy from Balasore district to take the examination at the Board School centre here but had restrained the authorities from publishing the boy's results.

Court nod awaited

"The boy was allowed to sit for the examination at the last moment and he wrote all his papers in the ten-day long test. His answer scripts were evaluated normally along with other students. As we have not received any direction from the High Court yet with regard to the publication of the boy's results, they would not be made public," Mr. Pani said.

At least 4,03,000 candidates appeared for the examinations at about 1,800 centres across the State from March 7 to 16. The answer scripts were evaluated at 79 centres from April 13 to 26. The tabulation of marks were done at an undisclosed computer farm in Kolkota while the printing of result booklets were also done at a printing press outside the State, Mr. Pani said.

He said State Mass Education Minister Bishnu Das would release the results and the result booklets would be sold simultaneously at 33 schools of the State at 9 a.m. the same day. The results and individual marks of the candidates would also be available in the Internet in website address of http://www.bseorissa.in and http://www.orissaresults.nic.in from 10 a.m. the same day, he added.

He further informed that adequate precautionary measures were taken to ensure that the result booklets were not available to public before the official publication of results. "We warned employees of the board in stringent terms that if any report of leakage is received, then disciplinary action would be initiated against the erring staff," Mr. Pani said.

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