Nagpur: The CBSE decision to shift the delivery of exam exam papers to online mode has made a large positive impact, even though it still does not have a trace of carbon.
The decision to send a question paper for the council exam where around 30 students of Lakh (X and XII) are registered, have saved thousands of transportation vehicles on the streets, reducing pollution throughout the country.
A senior CBSE official said, “paper questions and stationery related to other examinations will be transported to cities and villages using a wide network of thousands of vehicles.
Obviously, air pollution caused by the vehicle will be very high.
But now, we are now Sending a question paper in online mode that really contributes to saving carbon footprint.
“At present, CBSE is conducting a Term-1 Board exam for X and XII.
These examinations are held in the MCQ format, which are the letters of questions sent to school using the Board Exam management website.
The paper came about 90 minutes before the exam began, after which school began to print it.
CBSE officials say that this has other advantages.
“The paper security is intact right to the end.
Previously, the question paper will be printed in advance because of the need to distribute it.
Then storage with guards (mostly banks) are other logistics challenges,” the official said.
In one squeeze, the center board has eliminated the need for all this.
It’s an IT team led by Antriksh Johri designing a broad and backward paper delivery system.
A CBSE principal tells the TOI that first, information is collected in infrastructure schools, vis-vis printers and high-speed photocopiers.
“Then there is a Mock test that is owned to see how much time it takes the whole process and what hiccups.
So far it has worked perfectly for everyone,” said the principal.
While CBSE saves a lot of carbon footprint by making excessive transportation vehicles, it also has an impact on the number of paper used.
The need for paper additional questions is almost lost now.
A principal said, “We know exactly how many students appear in our center and only the numbers printed.
Previously, the Board had to print extra to handle the UNFORSeen event.” Most of the OMR sheets, which are used to answer, are also printed by school and it’s also to ensure zero waste.
Schools are expected to be replaced for stationery fees ‘according to policy’.
A principal said, “So far there is no detail that comes but not official we have been told that it will be done.”