Bhaktapur: The Office of the Controller of Examinations today announced the names of the schools to be awarded for maintaining fairness during School Leaving Certificate examinations-2068, held from March 19-29 this year.

Forty-three schools from 40 districts have been picked for the awards by a meeting of the SLC Board held yesterday. The schools were recommended by examination coordination committees of respective districts. The exam coordination committees comprised chief district officer, district education officer and district chief of security body.

Altogether 1,748 exam centres were set up across the country.

Two schools each from Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Jhapa and one each from Illam, Sankhuwasabha, Terhathum, Dhankuta, Bhojpur, Morang, Sunsari, Khotang, Udayapur, Saptari, Dolakha, Ramechhap, Mahottari, Sarlahi, Sindhupalchowk, Nuwakot, Dhading, Kavrepalanchowk, Bhaktapur, Makwanpur, Chitwan, Bara, Parsa, Gorkha, Lamjung, Kaski, Tanahun, Syangja, Nawalparasi, Rupandehi, Kapilvastu, Parbat, Salyan, Dang, Surkhet, Banke and Bardiya have been chosen for the award.

The OCE is for the first time honouring schools for conducting fair exams hoping to ensure that the SLC tests will be conducted in complete fair manner in future, said Ambika Prasad Regmi, Deputy Controller of the OCE. “Schools meeting the criteria set by OCE were chosen for the awards,” he added. “Peaceful environment in exam halls, adequate furniture, well- performing invigilators and superintendents were some of the prerequisites that were set for awards.”

Home centres and districts with less than five exam centres were not in the competition.

Each award will carry a purse of Rs 25,000 with a letter of appreciation. Rs 10,000 will be given to exam superintendents, Regmi informed. The date and venue for award ceremony will be announced later.

While well-performing schools are being awarded, according to Regmi, the schools that did bad in terms of conducting exams will be listed. They will liable to punishment, said Regmi, not giving details of modes of punishment.

source: The Himalayan Times,5 June 2012