All school board results to be out by June 10

Indian school boards are fast moving towards uniformity with an agreement on declaring results before June 10 every year to give ample time to students to seek admission in institutes of their choice.

Updated on: Sep 5, 2007, 03:04:31 IST

Hindustan Times | By Chetan Chauhan, New Delhi

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Indian school boards are fast moving towards uniformity with an agreement on declaring results before June 10 every year to give ample time to students to seek admission in institutes of their choice.

State education boards are working on an answersheet evaluation system, where results will be declared within three to four weeks after the final day of the exams, said DV Sharma, general secretary of the Council of Boards for Secondary Education (COBSE). By next year, most boards will declare results before June 10, he added.

The move will be a major step toward a uniform academic calendar as recommended by the National Curriculum Framework, 2005. The University Grants Commission (UGC) has already enforced a uniform calendar from this academic year for all universities in the country.

The boards have also told the COBSE that the syllabus for classes IX and X and classes XI and XII will not be clubbed for board examinations, to reduce examination stress on students. Instead, there will be a separate examination for classes IX and XI, conducted by the schools themselves or under supervision of the boards.

Another area in which COBSE wants state boards to formulate a uniform policy is a grading system for exam results. The CBSE has already started issuing marksheets for the Class X examination, with grades.

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Chetan Chauhan is the National Affairs Editor looking into all aspects of news and features from across India. A Chevening scholar with over three decades of experience in reporting and news management, Chetan has extensively covered all important aspects of the social sector, political economy, environment and climate change nationally and internationally. He did a journalism course at the Reuters Institute of Journalism in Oxford and Digital Media training at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He started as a reporter with The Statesman in 1996 and joined the Hindustan Times in 2000 in the metro bureau covering environment, crime and Delhi politics. He covered hot local news, from the Jessica Lal murder case to the rebellion of Delhi Congress MLAs against then Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, to the replacement of toxic vehicle fuel with cleaner compressed natural gas (CNG) in the national capital. Some of his stories on air pollution became part of the Supreme Court’s landmark MC Mehta versus Government of India case in the National Capital Region (NCR), forcing the government to take corrective measures. As part of the national political bureau since 2004, he covered important central sectors such as environment, education, social justice, labour, rural development, water resources, renewable energy, agriculture, broadcasting and the Planning Commission for more than a decade producing several exclusive and investigative breaking stories. His specialisation is the environment, having covered at least a dozen United Nations global conferences on climate change, biodiversity and wildlife including climate summits in Paris, Copenhagen and Bali. He also covered India’s two five-year plans ---11th and 12th and reported on drafting and execution of right based laws such as Right to Education, Right to Information and rural job guarantee law, MG-NREGA, now being introduced in new format as VG-RAM-G Act. He has in-depth knowledge of social sector issues. He was one of the first to report on tigers vanishing from Sariska and Panna wildlife reserves in 2004 and 2008, respectively, leading to the setting up of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and the introduction of stringent penal provisions for poaching. He has written extensively on the rising human-animal conflict in India and the degradation of India’s biodiversity hotspots because of mining and other activities. Since 2004, Chetan has covered Parliament comprehensively and participated in training on the nuanced coverage of Parliament proceedings. He has travelled extensively across India to cover national and provincial elections since 1998, especially in the Hindi heartland states, considered India’s road to power. He writes a regular column for Hindustan Times, Ecostani, on important national politics, economy, Himalayan ecology and environmental issues. His other responsibilities include providing inputs for edits and edit page articles for the publication, apart from managing news flow from across India.Read More

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