Beed, Mar 4: About 1199 answer sheets of Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examination kept in a room were reduced to ashes in a fire in Beed district of Maharashtra state. The answer sheets were of Mathematics paper. According to the initial reports, the papers were kept in a room which caught fire. The reason of fire is yet to be ascertained. More details in the incident are awaited.
The class 12 or HSC exams started from February 21 and will be held until March 20, 2018. Around 14.85 lakh candidates have registered for the exams across the state. The HSC exams are being conducted in nine divisions – Pune, Kolhapur, Amravati, Nagpur, Ratnagiri, Mumbai, Aurangabad, Nasik, and Latur. (Also read: Class 12 girls strip searched at HSC exam centre in Pune )
For the smooth conduct of the examinations and to curb cheating, the Maharashtra board has come up with a number of stringent measures. As per the state board’s new rules which include, an entry-exit policy, students will not be allowed inside the examination hall after 10.30 am, unlike the previous case, where they were given a window of 30 minutes more.
A press released by the Maharashtra Board, in HSC 2018 exams, 5,80,820 students have registered for Science stream while 4,79,863 candidates will appear in Arts stream. In Commerce HSC exams, 3,66,756 students have registered along with 57,693 candidates will appear for vocational papers. A total of 14,85,132 will appear in the HSC exams, which is being organised at 9,486 junior colleges and 2,822 centres across the state.
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