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Odisha's Board of Secondary Education is deploying AI-enabled CCTV cameras across all 3,082 High School Certificate Examination centres to combat malpractice and ensure fairness. This year's expansion to every centre, unlike last year's selective approach, aims to boost transparency. The advanced system will monitor halls, entry/exit points, and detect anomalies like overcrowding or unauthorized breaks, enhancing exam integrity.
Cuttack/Bhubaneswar: The Board of Secondary Education (BSE) has decided to install AI-enabled CCTV cameras in all 3,082 centres across the state for the High School Certificate (HSC) Examination, which begins on Feb 19.
This marks a significant expansion from last year, when surveillance cameras were installed only in identified sensitive centres.The board has also increased the number of exam centres by 82 this year, factoring in the rise in student enrolment and logistical requirements. Officials said the move aims to curb malpractice, enhance transparency and boost public confidence in the examination system.BSE president Srikant Tarai said, “This year, CCTV coverage has been extended to all centres without exception.
The objective is to ensure a fair, transparent and stress-free examination environment for students, while preventing any scope for malpractice.”“CCTVs will monitor examination halls, entry and exit points, and other sensitive areas. Live feeds will be accessible to designated monitoring teams at district and state levels for real-time supervision. A control room has been installed in the BSE office at Cuttack, where all footage will be monitored.
A team of officials has been engaged to carry out the work,” he said.Explaining the AI-based alert mechanism, Tarai said each examination hall will have 27 individuals — 24 students, 2 invigilators and a rover or standby invigilator. “If more than 27 people are detected inside an exam hall, the AI camera will flag overcrowding. Similarly, students are permitted to take a toilet break once per hour. If a student exits the hall more than once within that period, the system will generate an alert,” he said.Tarai said that all question papers carry watermarks and QR codes, which are mapped to the AI surveillance system. “If a question paper moves from one student to another, it can be detected through the camera network,” he added.Centre superintendents and invigilators have been instructed to ensure smooth installation and uninterrupted functioning of the surveillance system during examination hours.
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