17.53 lakh students appearing in Gujarat Board exams from Thursday

Gandhinagar: Class-10 and 12th Gujarat Board exams wiwll start from March 5. More than 17.53 lakh students will appear in these exams. While 10.83 lakh are from class-10, 1.43 lakh are from class-12 Science stream and 5.27 lakh are from class-12 general stream.

The exams will be conducted across total 137 zones at 1587 centres in 5,557 buildings and 60,027 class rooms.

While 59,733 class rooms will have CCTV camera vigil, the other 294 class rooms will have tablets with video camera present.

During some important exams, class-1 and class-2 officers of Gujarat government will remain present at exam centres for full time. Some very sensitive category exam centres have also presence of State Reserve Police (SRP) and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).

The State government said it has ensure proper availability of State Transport buses for better and timely access to exam centres for students.

Total 175 will give exams in prisons. Arrangements are made for handicap students on the ground floor of exam centres. Class 10 blind students will be able to give exams through braille script question papers.

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