U.P. Board exams 2023 Announcement: Now cops can also play role in deciding centres

The committees will be constituted under respective district magistrates. The district police chief, be it senior superintendent of police or superintendent of police, or a police officer nominated by the police commissioner as the case may be, will be included in the committee as a member as per the board examination policy for 2023 issued by the state government, they added.

As per the centre allotment policy for the 2023 exam, a copy of which is with HT, the district inspector of schools (Dios) of the district concerned will be the member secretary of the committee. Along with the basic Shiksha Adhikari (BSA) and the SDM posted in tehsils and two senior principals of the district will be the members of the committee. Out of them, one principal will be from a government school and one from a school based in rural areas, the policy spells out.

In this, the UP Board examination centre allotment policy was sent by the special secretary, of secondary education, Ved Pati Mishra to the director, of secondary education and the chairman, of UP Board, as well as to the secretary, of UP Board, on October 19, 2022, the district level committee has been spelt out. Even before this, the district-level committees were constituted under DMs but there were only two senior principals along with Dios, BSA and SDM. The police officers had no role in it, officials said.

Although the exact role of police officers has not been mentioned in the mandate, it is believed that they have been included so that correct information can be obtained about the schools which have been found involved in facilitating mass copying in the previous examinations or incidents of paper leaks or such activities undermining the sanctity of the exams.