SLC examination starts

 The School Leaving Certificate (SLC) examination, which is considered as iron gate of school education, has started from today.

Altogether 178,952 girls and 189,726 boys are appearing for the exam monitored by 33,225 teachers, officials and security personnel. Of the examinees, 292,287 are regular and 76,391 are exempted students.

The Ministry of Education and Sports informed that 1,186 centers have been set up across the country.

Of the total examinees, 102, 207 are from the eastern, 119, 216 from central, 77, 472 from western, 38,989 from mid-western and 30,794 from far western regions respectively.

Deputy Examination Controller Sunder Shakya said that all the centers are fully prepared for the examination.
"All necessary materials have reached the respective centers and so have the resource persons, including 11,860 security personnel," he said. Earlier, SLC questions used to be prepared from class nine and 10 courses.

'SLC Guideline 2007' issued by the ministry said that though the examination is three hours long, handicapped students will get additional 90 minutes.

Eight parties and their sister organisations have vowed not to hold any programme to disrupt the examinations.

Various organizations have appealed to all concerned to help conduct the SLC examinations in a peaceful
manner.