KATHMANDU- This year’s School Leaving Certificate (SLC) examination is kicking off across the country on Thursday.
According to the Office of the Controller of Examination, 496,243 students are appearing in the examination for which 1,672 centres have been set up across the country. Of the total, 436,411 are regular examinees while 59,832 are exempted. Similarly, 8,140 students—7,794 regular and 346 exempted—are taking part in the exams from 89 open schools. This year, the highest number of students—32,860—appearing for the exam are from Kathmandu, while the least number of students —122—are from Manang.
A total of 47,242 personnel, including 1,672 superintendents, 2,395 assistant superintendents, 19,843 invigilators and 6,612 peons, have been deployed for the nine-day examination, Examination Controller Surya Gautam said.
The SLC Examination Board has decided to adopt tough measures in a bid to conduct fair exams. A board meeting chaired by Education Minister Gangalal Tuladhar last week decided to lodge public offence cases against parents who encourage their wards to adopt unfair means in the exams, while teachers, officials and security personnel involved in such practices will be booked. Speaking at an interaction, Tuladhar said anyone found breaching the norms of the exams will be liable to action. As per the Education Act, one adopting unfair means and breaching the exam code can be jailed for six months or fined up to Rs. 100,000 or both.
Nepal Electricity Authority has decided to reduce weekly load-shedding from 98 hours to 84 hours from Thursday in view of the School Leaving Certificate (SLC) exams that begin on Thursday. According to Chiranjivi Sharma, director at the Department of Systems Operation and Maintenance under the NEA, the power utility decided to reduce the power cut from the existing14 hours to 12 hours a day on an average for the SLC students for the next 10 days.
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