According to Ram Swaroop Sinha, the secretary at MoE, army personnel will remain on standby to help Nepal Police throughout the SLC exams period. "Besides this, the army has assured us mainly two kinds of help," Sinha said. [break]
"First, NA will provide communication service to us through their sophisticated system in the remote districts where general means of telecommunications does not work. Second, they will be helping us in escorting vehicles with answer-papers to safer places."
In a bid to make the upcoming SLC exams, which is slated for March 25-April 2, fair and free of irregularities, MoE has decided to mobilize 14 different inspection teams led by joint secretaries in all zones.
"The high-level inspection teams will be monitoring exams in the districts in their respective zones," Sinha said. "We will take action against those helping examinees cheat during the exams."
MoE has decided to book the government officials found indulged in undisciplined activities by abusing their authorities while conducting SLC exams. "The list will be used in the future when MoE takes crucial decision on their transfers," Sinha said.
According to Sinha, all district exams coordination committees have been instructed to ask political parties at local level to not launch strikes during SLC.
With just 10 days remaining for the SLC exams, the Office of the Controller of Examinations (OCE) has delivered question papers to 72 districts. "Three districts in the Valley have yet to get question papers now," Mitra Devkota, the controller of SLC examinations, said.
A total of 466,300 students are appearing in this year´s SLC. OCE has set up 1,550 exam centers. The highest number of examinees (over 32,000) is in Kathmandu while Manang has the lowest (just 91 examinees).
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