School Education Secretary Anil Swarup said the committee will submit a report in this regard by May 31.
New Delhi:
The central government on Tuesday constituted a 7 member High Powered Committee to examine the process of conduct of CBSE exam and suggest measures to make it secure and foolproof through the use of technology. The committee has been asked to revisit all aspects related to the security checks built into the system for ensuring that the Question papers reach the examinees without tampering and also to examine and assess all areas of potential weakness in the present system of transporting question papers from the printing presses to the examinees.
The committee will also suggest ways in which the system can be made more secure with the use of technology and minimization of human intervention.
School Education Secretary Anil Swarup said the committee will submit a report in this regard by May 31.
Mr. Swarup tweeted that committee consists of experts, under chairmanship of V S Oberoi, ex-Secretary, Ministry of Human Resources Development.
The government move comes after it has decided to conduct re-exam for class 12 economics Paper on April 25, 2018, amid huge anger over the question papers being leaked.
The committee also included Pavnesh Kumar, Retd. Controller of Examination, CBSE and Former Secretary, UP Examination Board, Prof. J.S. Rajput, India representative on the executive board of the UNESCO former director, NCERT and former Chairman NCTE, Prof. Vasudha Kamat, Independent Director, IRCON & Former VC, SNDT Women's University and Prof. Krishna Mohan Tripathy, Ex-Director of Education, UP And Chairman Board of High School & Intermediate Education, UP.
Apart from this a senior representative of director general, NIC and Joint Secretary of School Education department of HRD ministry will be also included in the committee.
In another development on Tuesday, HRD ministry and CBSE decided to not to conduct class 10 maths re-exam, after a "thorough analysis and evaluation of the answer sheets" showed no specific trend that the leak had impacted the exam outcome, tweeted Union Education Secretary Anil Swarup.
For the class 10 math exam, the government had said it would only be held in Delhi and Haryana if the police investigation points to a "large-scale leak".
Menwhile, Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development Satyapal Singh said today the central government is working to prepare a mechanism that will ensure that no question paper ever takes place in the future.
"We are working to prepare such a mechanism that no question paper leak can ever take place in future," Singh said in Sonipat on Tuesday.
(With inputs from PTI)
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The committee will also suggest ways in which the system can be made more secure with the use of technology and minimization of human intervention.
School Education Secretary Anil Swarup said the committee will submit a report in this regard by May 31.
Mr. Swarup tweeted that committee consists of experts, under chairmanship of V S Oberoi, ex-Secretary, Ministry of Human Resources Development.
Govt. constitutes a High Powered Committee, comprising experts, under chairmanship of V S Oberoi, ex-Secretary, MHRD, to examine the process of conduct of CBSE exams & suggest measures to make it secure & foolproof through the use of technology. Report to be submitted by 31st May
- Anil Swarup (@swarup58) April 3, 2018
The government move comes after it has decided to conduct re-exam for class 12 economics Paper on April 25, 2018, amid huge anger over the question papers being leaked.
The committee also included Pavnesh Kumar, Retd. Controller of Examination, CBSE and Former Secretary, UP Examination Board, Prof. J.S. Rajput, India representative on the executive board of the UNESCO former director, NCERT and former Chairman NCTE, Prof. Vasudha Kamat, Independent Director, IRCON & Former VC, SNDT Women's University and Prof. Krishna Mohan Tripathy, Ex-Director of Education, UP And Chairman Board of High School & Intermediate Education, UP.
Apart from this a senior representative of director general, NIC and Joint Secretary of School Education department of HRD ministry will be also included in the committee.
In another development on Tuesday, HRD ministry and CBSE decided to not to conduct class 10 maths re-exam, after a "thorough analysis and evaluation of the answer sheets" showed no specific trend that the leak had impacted the exam outcome, tweeted Union Education Secretary Anil Swarup.
For the class 10 math exam, the government had said it would only be held in Delhi and Haryana if the police investigation points to a "large-scale leak".
Menwhile, Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development Satyapal Singh said today the central government is working to prepare a mechanism that will ensure that no question paper ever takes place in the future.
"We are working to prepare such a mechanism that no question paper leak can ever take place in future," Singh said in Sonipat on Tuesday.
(With inputs from PTI)
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