The annual Matriculation examination, conducted by the Board of Secondary Education (BSE), commenced today across Odisha, with over 5.12 lakh students appearing for the test. A total of 5,12,437 students are sitting for the Class X exams at 3,029 centres spread across all 30 districts. The exams will continue until March 6.
On the first day, students wrote the First Language papers, including Odia, Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, Telugu, and English. To ensure a smooth and fair process, the BSE has implemented extensive measures. All exam centres are under CCTV surveillance, and AI-enabled cameras have been installed at both exam venues and 314 nodal centres for strict monitoring.
A four-tier squad has been deployed to prevent malpractice, and a control room at the BSE headquarters is overseeing real-time proceedings through live streaming. Each question paper has a unique serial number to trace potential leaks. The papers were dispatched on February 12 and reached exam centres by February 19.
The evaluation process will begin on March 19, with nodal centres in each district managing the marking. With these high-tech measures, the BSE aims to maintain the integrity of the examination process.
