Up board exam 2021- centres for girls to be allotted within 5 km
Team Careers360 | November 27, 2020 | 11:56 AM IST | 1 min read
Explore 50+ important entrance exams after 10+2 across engineering, medical, law, and more. Don’t miss key opportunities to plan your career and secure admission in top colleges.
Check NowNEW DELHI: Girls students appearing in the UP Board 10th and 12th exams in the current academic year will get the exam centre within 5 km of radius from their schools. Differently-abled students, with more than 40 per cent disability will also get either the exam centre in their own school or within 5 km radius. Also, the boy’s students will not be allowed to appear in an exam centre of an all-girls school.
Aradhana Shukla, Additional chief secretary (secondary education) said, “At a time when the government has launched Mission Shakti for security of women, we too decided to help our girl appearing in the exam by allotting them a centre closest from their original institution.”
In some other changes, considering the COVID -19 situation in the state, a minimum of 150 and a maximum of 800 students are allowed to appear in the exam in a day in both the shifts. Also, It is a must for the exam halls to have at least 36 square feet space for each student. Earlier, this limit was 20 sq feet for each student.
Also, read
Write to us at news@careers360.com
Follow us for the latest education news on colleges and universities, admission, courses, exams, research, education policies, study abroad and more..
To get in touch, write to us at news@careers360.com.
Featured News
]- CISCE schools can continue to teach foreign languages as 3rd option: Board secretary
- BBAU Lucknow student’s death sparks protests against hostel food, curfew; proctor denies link
- Fees to social media-use: What NCAHP’s first ethics code for allied, healthcare professionals says
- NMC junks 150-seat MBBS cap, population rule; sets 10 km limit for medical college-hospital distance
- ‘Not just academic, but personal’: NSUT Delhi takes AI beyond BTech, across non-engineering courses
- AI judge, cyber law courses, scholarships: GNLU is revamping LLB degrees to make students courtroom-ready
- CBSE third language policy throws French, Spanish, German teachers across schools into crisis
- With CSE surge, these specialised BTech courses are vanishing from engineering colleges
- Govt school to Glasgow: NIT Agartala civil engineer wins Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship
- UGC allows state colleges to seek deemed-university status, become off-campus centres of other institutions