BSE Odisha to use watermarks, barcodes in Class 10 examinations 2025 to prevent paper leaks
The system is currently used for the Odisha secondary school teachers eligibility test to be held on January 17
NEW DELHI: Board of Secondary Education (BSE) Odisha has planned to use barcodes and watermarks in the Class 10 examination 2025 to prevent paper leaks. The board announced the move after a series of paper leak incidents took place over the past year, as per reports.
According to an Odishatv report, the BSE is set to enhance the security protocol for the upcoming Odisha Metric examination 2025 which is scheduled to be conducted from February 21 to March 6, 2025.
Recently, Srikant Tarai, president, BSE, said that the current system is being used in the question papers of the Odisha secondary school teachers eligibility test scheduled to be held on January 17 on an experimental basis.
"If this is successful, arrangements will be made to implement the same in the annual matric examination this year,” he added, reported by TOI.
The report further states that each exam paper in the Odisha Class 10 exam will be uniquely identifiable with a range of security features including watermarks, barcodes, and encrypted security numbers. This development aims to safeguard the credibility and sanctity of the question papers as the leaks were unfair to students and the board, it added.
The board also announced the schedule for Odisha Matric Examination 2025 on November 14, 2024.
As per the schedule, the exams will be held in one sitting and one question paper for regular and ex-regular papers. The exams will be conducted every day from 9:00 am to 11:30 am, starting from February 21, 2025.
According to the TOI report, in December 2024, the Odisha state assembly passed a bill that includes up to 10 years of imprisonment, for organized crimes in recruitment and entrance examinations. This came after centre passed the Public Exam (Prevention of Unfair Means) Bill , 2024 in February last year.
Also read Odisha govt plans to include 200 ml of milk in mid-day meals for children
Odisha: Paper leaks in 2024
As reported by several local news portals in Odisha, there were several major paper leaks in 2024.
HSC examination: The english question paper of the annual High School Certificate (HSC) examination was reportedly leaked on February 24.
OSSC recruitment : The Odisha Staff Selection Commission Statistical Assistance Recruitment exam alleged that one of the boxes containing the question paper was opened before the examination began on October 6.
NEET UG 2024 : In another incident, one accused was arrested in connection with the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test Undergraduate (NEET-UG) 2024 paper leak case on August 6 in Bhubaneswar.
Follow us for the latest education news on colleges and universities, admission, courses, exams, research, education policies, study abroad and more..
To get in touch, write to us at news@careers360.com.
Next Story
]Featured News
]- Experts propose 7 spots for university townships in education ministry’s post-budget webinar
- Primary school teachers in Karnataka must serve 12 years before promotion, say new recruitment rules
- JNU, TISS Mumbai, BHU: Student unions vanish from universities with elections scrapped, councils taking over
- Students in University of Aberdeen, Mumbai, get credential exactly the same they’d get in Scotland: COO
- ‘IIMC to upgrade all journalism and mass communication courses to MA degrees, phase out PG diplomas’: VC
- Rebuilding Calcutta University: VC Ashutosh Ghosh’s priorities are recruitment, fixing finances, reforms
- PARAKH’s Foundational Learning Study 2026 to cover 1 lakh Class 3 students across 10,000 schools
- Telangana: Government Degree College Vikarabad moves out of school and into DIET campus
- ‘Shouldn’t open universities like shops’: Odisha higher education expands but students rue plummeting quality
- Dual degrees, faculty exchange: States bet on foreign university tie-ups, but fine print tells another story