Daily Token Inspection in HSC exam: Teachers too face music along with copycats

Lokmat News Network

Mehboob Inamdar

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: In a bid to crack down on malpractice during this year’s HSC and SSC examinations, each teacher will be assigned frisking duty for 50 students under the ‘Daily Taken Inspection’ system. If a candidate is found copying, both the student and the concerned teacher will face action.

The MSBSHSE will conduct the HSC and SSC examinations in February-March 2026. A total of 65,516 candidates will appear at 159 centres in the district for the HSC examination between February 10 and March 18.

During the February-March 2025 examination, the State Board decided to cancel the centre if any copy case is reported. Despite this, students were found involved in copy cases. A total of 55 HSC and SSC centres were banned for copy cases last year.

This year, the MSBSHSE, Education Department, and District Administration are jointly implementing multifaceted and stringent measures to ensure that the Class 12 examinations are conducted in a completely malpractice-free, fear-free, and transparent environment.

Secondary Education Officer Ashwini Lathkar said the frisking of candidates would not be limited to the entrance of the centre.

She said one invigilator would be allotted 50 students for the frisking daily and their list would be submitted at the centre daily.

“There should not be any copy in the examination. If any candidate from the list of 50 students is found, action will be taken against the invigilator along with the student at the examination centre,” she said.

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Staff change at sensitive centres

There are some centres which are declared sensitive for the examination in the district. She clarified that the centre directors, supervisors and all the staff at these centres would be replaced with new personnel at sensitive centres, while installation of CCTV cameras is mandatory at each centre.

Education Officer Lathkar said that action against all the examination centre directors, block education officers, panchayat samiti officers, centre heads, supervisors, and invigilation teams in the district would be taken. She said that action was proposed not just against students involved in malpractice at the centre, but also against officers and employees who assist them, ignore the malpractice, or deliberately turn a blind eye.

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--In centres where some examination halls have CCTV cameras and others do not, the entire staff at that centre will be immediately replaced. Also, the recognition of that centre will be cancelled from the next academic year.

--This year, full-time video recording will be done at 100 selected examination centres.

--A control room and examination war room will be operational at the district level, and direct monitoring of each examination centre will be conducted through Zoom meetings.

--Drone cameras, special flying squads, and regular static teams will be deployed at sensitive centres.