CBSE to ensure exam centres are within 8km of students’ schools
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has started developing an online system, which will ensure that students are allocated examination centres which are located within eight kilometres of their schools. The board will provide all information with respect to exam centres for board exams, National Eligibility Test (NET), NEET, JEE main online. For this purpose it had asked for mandatory disclosures from schools throughout the country about the current infrastructure. This is done for the purpose of bringing transparency in the system. As of now there is no system for online mapping of such information. The CBSE has decided to allocate the exam centres within an 8km radius of schools. This way the students don’t have to travel long distances for examination purposes. The closest centre will be allocated for other competitive exams. This will help CBSE to allocating centres automatically based on the information of school infrastucture. The system will prompt the of