Telangana class X board exams to begin from 3 April

Hyderabad: Class X examinations in Telangana will be held from 3 April to 13 April throughout the state. The exams will be held from 9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. However, the duration of composite course and science papers is from 9.30 a.m. to 12.50 p.m.

A total of 4,94,620 students will appear in the exams, of these 4,85,826 are regular students. The exams will be held in 2,652 centres across the state.

Examinations will be conducted with six papers instead of 11 papers. Hall tickets will be dispatched to all the schools in the state from 24 March. They will also be available on the official website.

The government has already issued guidelines for the smooth conduct of the exams. The DEOs have completed verification of infrastructure facilities in the examination centres. Appointment of examination personnel, flying squads, distribution of confidential material to storage points and other logistics like arrangement of CCTV cameras in all the examination centres, issuing identity cards to all the personnel appointed for examination duties are completed.

The health department will depute one ANM at each examination centre along with ORS packets and first-aid kits on all the days of the examination. The TSRTC will run more number of buses on time to enable the candidates to reach the examination centres. The electricity department will provide uninterrupted power supply during preparation days and during the examination period.

Meanwhile, state chief secretary Santhi Kumari held a video conference with district collectors and DEOs and instructed them to coordinate with the police for bandobast at all the examination centres and for providing escorts to the vehicles for transportation of confidential material.