Matric exam ends peacefully, results by April end

BHUBANESWAR: Besides a few problems in the beginning, the Annual High School Certificate Examination (HSCE) conducted by the Board of Secondary Education (BSE) of Odisha, which was commenced on February 25, concluded peacefully on Saturday.  

BSE president DP Nanda said that evaluation of answer sheets of matric exam would begin from March 17 and results likely to be published by April end.

Earlier, the School and Mass Education Department was geared up to conduct the examinations and had arranged elaborate security to make it incident free. The department had issued guidelines for deploying either Block Development Officers (BDOs), Tahasildars or magistrates in the examination centres to check malpractices.

This year, over five lakh students had appeared the HSC examination at 2,492 centres across the State. While 135 squad units had been formed, nearly 5,000 superintendents and deputy superintendents had been appointed to ensure free and fair conduct of the examinations.