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SSC examination: take police help at problem centres, officials told

Staff Reporter

ANANTAPUR: District Collector Y.V. Anuradha has directed all the officials concerned to take the help of the police at the 73 problematic SSC examination centres identified in the district. The examinations will commence from March 20.

In all, SSC examinations will be conducted in 209 centres across the district and 58,124 students will appear. Of them, 43,441 are regular students and 14,683 are private.

She instructed the police to arrange proper bandobust at 51 centres where private candidates were appearing for the examinations. She also directed the officials to take appropriate measures at 22 other problematic centres already identified.

The Collector directed APSRTC Regional Manager M. N. Prakash Rao to arrange special buses from villages to ferry students appearing for SSC examinations with special signboards. The buses should reach the examination centres 30 minutes before the commencement of the examinations at 9.30 a.m.

She asked the health department officials to keep ORS packets and medicines to control fever, as the temperatures are rising.

37,851 students to appear

KADAPA: Criminal proceedings would be initiated against SSC students indulging in copying and malpractices besides being debarred under Andhra Pradesh Public Examinations (Prevention of Malpractices) Act 1999, Collector G. Asok Kumar warned on Sunday. In all, 37,851 students including 30,491 regular students and 7,360 private students would appear for SSC exams commencing on March 20, he said at a meeting here to review the examination arrangements. SSC exams would be held in 164 centres in the district and six flying squads comprising an SI, MRO and another gazetted rank officer and 11 sitting squads were constituted, he said.

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