Install CCTV cameras at examination centres: Edu Secy to coordinators

The Himachal Pradesh School Education Board has issued guidelines to all institutes where examination centres have been established for board exams to install CCTV cameras at the entry and exit points.

Vishal Sharma, Secretary of the Education Board, issued guidelines to the centre coordinators that CCTV cameras must be installed at the entry and exit points of examination centres. He also directed that recordings should be kept safe for at least six months.

He has also asked the exam coordinators to install CCTVs at all examination halls and rooms.

“Monitoring, recording and preservation of CCTV footage during exams will be the joint responsibility of principal, headmaster and IT Inspector of the school concerned,” the Secretary said.

Sharma said if at any stage irregularities related to installation, monitoring and recording of footage comes to the fore, the board would confiscate the entire or part of remuneration of the officer concerned.

Apart from this, he/she would be disqualified from being assigned any duty of the board, said Sharma, adding that disciplinary action would also be taken against him/her.

The erring examination centre would be closed for the future or for a specific period, he stated.