Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Sept 27: Advisors to Governor, Khurshid Ahmed Ganai and K Vijay Kumar today chaired a high-level meeting to review the preparations for the smooth and hassle-free conduct of annual examinations (Oct-Nov session) 2018 for classes of 10th, 11th and 12th in Kashmir province and winter zone of Jammu division.
Chief Secretary BVR Subrahmanyam, Principal Secretary Home R K Goyal, Director General of Police Dilbag Singh, Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Baseer Ahmed Khan, Inspector General Police Kashmir zone, S P Pani, Secretary Education Ajeet Kumar Sahu, Chairperson JKBOSE, Veena Pandita, Director School Education Kashmir Dr G N Itoo, Secretary JKBOSE, Riyaz Ahmed and other officers attended the meeting along with Deputy Commissioners from Kashmir division who attended it through video-conferencing.
Similarly, Divisional Commissioner Jammu Sanjeev Verm, Director School Education Jammu Rakesh Kumar Sarangal and Deputy Commissioners from Jammu division also attended the meeting through video conferencing.
The examination date for annual exams of class 12 has been finalized as October 22 while as October 24 and 26 have been fixed for start of class 10th and 11th annual exams respectively.
Advisor Ganai said that invigilators and the selected staff should be aware well in advance regarding their assignments so that they would be ready to deliver the best during the examinations.
He instructed that the deployment roaster of duties to designated staff should be shared with the respective Divisional Commissioner’s office to ensure that there is no confusion of allotted works at any point of time. Besides, the Advisor also asked to ensure there is surplus staff designated for that job so that in case of any sort of exigency, the same could be used.
The Advisor instructed the Directors of School Education Kashmir and Jammu to put an immediate stop on holding of any sort of cultural event, especially annual day functions till the examinations are completed. He said the teachers should spend whatever, time is at their disposal in addressing the queries or any kind of student confusions by taking additional classes.
Ganai directed that any staff against whom any sort of complaint has been registered in previous years should not be repeated this time.
Besides, Chairperson JKBOSE, DESK, DESJ and other concerned were directed to visit various districts to inoculate the concerned officials regarding their duties and to ensure there is no instance of copying at any centre.
On the occasion, Advisor K Vijay Kumar emphasized on the need for having coordination at grass root level so that problems if any could be minutely examined.
Similarly, Chief Secretary also stressed for conducting of fair examinations so that the students could get their due reward for their hard work.