This a historic figure in the board’s annals as Gujarat state is first in the country to use tablet cameras to check copying in examination halls has recorded an unrivaled rise of over 6,000% in malpractices cases in the SSC and HSC board exams.
This year 8,678 cases of copying had already been recorded campared to 2014 which had recorded 135 cases.
Bizarrely, about 60% of the total cases have been recorded in Anand (5,656) followed by Patan (501) and Ahmedabad (243).
Copying cases are expected to cross 10,000, according the officials.
After the district education office reports from across the state, the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB) are at random screening 69,000 CDs of CCTV footage to grab hold of more copy-cats.
“The experiment to introduce electronic surveillance to complement human supervision has proved highly successful. In 2013, tablets were put in 250 centers. In 2014, 90% exam centers had CCTV. Next year, 100% exam centers will have electronic eyes to curb copying,” said board secretary R I Patel.