Maharashtra schools told to set up cameras in all classrooms before Board exams

With Maharashtra State Board Class 10 and Class 12 examinations inching closer, schools and exam centres that do not have CCTV cameras in every classroom are being asked to set up surveillance in the nick of time.

In the west zone of Mumbai alone, 42 of 198 SSC exam centres and 20 of 149 HSC exam centres have been sent a notice for not having enough CCTVs in the premises and classrooms on January 21. The Class 12 exams this year are to commence from February 10 and the Class 10 exams are to begin on February 20.
“The schools and centres may have surveillance set up in their premises. However, ahead of the exams these exam centres need to have CCTVs in every classroom,” said education inspector Sanjay Javir.

mid-day previously reported that in the Mumbai division — Mumbai City, Mumbai Suburban 1 and 2, Navi Mumbai, Thane and Palghar — nearly 90-95 per cent of exam centres already have CCTV facilities as per the board chairman Rajendra Ahire. Over the past month, teacher and principal delegations have written to the Maharashtra board stating that implementing CCTV surveillance in such a short time using the school’s own funds would prove difficult for many.

The groups had also taken objection to the exchange of exam centres, where teachers on supervision duty will have to move to other schools instead of their own.