Examinations | Improving the quality of nurses and paramedics in Uttar Pradesh
Overview
While over 1 lakh applicants applied for 4500 vacancies in 2022, approximately two-thousand were able to secure eligibility marks. Less than 3% of the applicants were able to pass bringing to light the alarming state of quality of nursing education within the state. Nursing and paramedical insitutes in the state conducted exams at their home centers without any external supervision. Also, there was no time-bound mechanism for dispatching answer sheets to the evaluation center. Morever, results were declared several months after the exams were conducted. The pass rates were as high as 90% but the quality of nursing and paramedical professionals was low
73000
No. of Students appeared
550
No. of Examination Centers
800
No. of CCTV Cameras
Approach
UPSMF's approach on conducting fool-proof examinations considered both the insitutes and students. This meant deploying fool-proof mechanisms in institutes (mandatory installation of CCTV camers in every exam hall in every exam centre, cameras to be placed diagonally opposite to each other, control room to be setup at UPSMF for monitoring, flying squads deployed in every district for physical observation, sealing of answer copies under CCTV observation, timely dispatch of answer sheets on the same day of exam conduction). All this led to 73000+ students successfully completing the exams in 550+ exam centers through 800+ CCTV cameras monitored live. Not only this, a pool of evaluators was finalised beforehand to result a record-breaking time of result release within 6 months of exam conduction.
Synthesized Apporach
- Mandatory installation of CCTV cameras in all exam centers
- Control room set up at UPSMF to monitor live feed of all exam halls in every exam center
- 73 flying squads consisting of 153 observers in 73 districts of the state for physical observatio
- Timely dispatch of answer sheets within the same day of exam
- Result declaration within 6 weeks of exam conduction