Now, get your Class X hall-tickets on the Net

HYDERABAD: The education department has decided to post the hall-tickets of Class X students on the Internet. Government examinations director D Ravindranadham told The Times of India on Thursday that the state government wanted to simplify the process of examinations for students.
"Students tend to get tense over any delay in receipt of their hall-tickets, which can happen due to many reasons," he said.
The Board of Secondary Education will post the hall-tickets on the Internet from where all that the students have to do is download them.
"If a student does not receive the hall-ticket, he or she can go to the state government website, aponline.gov.in and download the hall-ticket by typing in their roll number," Ravindranadham said.
Another feature introduced by the state government this year is that the SSC-certificates and marks-memorandum would have security features, to avoid faking of certificates.
"I cannot reveal what these security features are, but all I can say is that a fake certificate can be made out from the real one by inspecting the document under ultra-violet light," he said.
The class-10 examinations are scheduled to start on March 17 and the pre-examination preparations have begun. The nominal rolls have been collected from the principals of almost all schools.
More than 10 lakh children will be taking the class-10 examination this year, compared to the 9.8 lakh children last year.
"More than 50 per cent of the students are from the regular academic stream. This is an extremely positive and encouraging aspect," he pointed out.
With an increase in number of candidates, the number of examination centres too has gone-up this year to about 4,500 compared to last year''s 4,343 centres.
Four or five flying squads will be formed in each district, comprising officials from education, revenue and police departments.
"The number of squads may vary in each district depending on the number of candidates," Ravindranadham explained. He said that the government would try to release the Class X results within a month of completion of the examinations.