<p class="title">The second PU examinations will commence from Wednesday and a total of 9,532 students will appear for the exams in the district.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Of the 9,532 students, 5,151 are girl students. As many as 8,266 are freshers and 838 are repeaters.</p>.<p class="bodytext">As many as 3,282 students are from the Arts stream, 3,683 from Commerce and 2,567 students from the Science stream.</p>.<p class="bodytext">On Wednesday, History, Physics and Basic Mathematics exams will be held from 10.15 am to 1.30 pm.</p>.<p class="bodytext">There are 18 examination centres in the district, of which five are in Chikkamagaluru, two each in Kadur and Tarikere, one each in Birur, Balehonnur, N R Pura, Koppa, Mudigere, Sringeri, Kalasa, Devanur and Ajjampura.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Chief supervisor, invigilator and staff have been deployed for the exam duty.</p>.<p class="bodytext">District-level and taluk-level squads have also been constituted to check any kind of malpractices. An observer has been appointed to each centre.</p>.<p class="bodytext">PU Department deputy director K Nagaraj said, ‘’All measures have been taken for the smooth conduct of the examination. Seating arrangement, water supply and others have been provided at the examination centres.’’</p>.<p class="bodytext">Police personnel have been deployed and CCTV cameras are installed in all the examination centres.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Students cannot carry mobile phones to the centre. Chief superintendent can use a basic handset at the centre.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Deputy Commissioner Dr Bagadi Gautham has clamped prohibitory orders in a 200-metre radius of the examination centres. All the photocopy shops have been ordered to remain closed during the examination.</p>.<p><strong>Black badge protest</strong></p>.<p class="bodytext">Urging the fulfilment of demands, the PU lecturers will perform their duties during the PU examination by wearing a black badge.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Some of the demands are higher wages, staggered recovery of ex-gratia, promotions and redressal of workload.</p>.<p class="bodytext">PU College Lecturers’ Association district president Dr M D Sudarshan said that they were confident that the government would fulfil their demands before the evaluation of answer scripts began.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“If we fail to get any positive response, then we are planning to boycott the evaluation,” he added.</p>
<p class="title">The second PU examinations will commence from Wednesday and a total of 9,532 students will appear for the exams in the district.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Of the 9,532 students, 5,151 are girl students. As many as 8,266 are freshers and 838 are repeaters.</p>.<p class="bodytext">As many as 3,282 students are from the Arts stream, 3,683 from Commerce and 2,567 students from the Science stream.</p>.<p class="bodytext">On Wednesday, History, Physics and Basic Mathematics exams will be held from 10.15 am to 1.30 pm.</p>.<p class="bodytext">There are 18 examination centres in the district, of which five are in Chikkamagaluru, two each in Kadur and Tarikere, one each in Birur, Balehonnur, N R Pura, Koppa, Mudigere, Sringeri, Kalasa, Devanur and Ajjampura.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Chief supervisor, invigilator and staff have been deployed for the exam duty.</p>.<p class="bodytext">District-level and taluk-level squads have also been constituted to check any kind of malpractices. An observer has been appointed to each centre.</p>.<p class="bodytext">PU Department deputy director K Nagaraj said, ‘’All measures have been taken for the smooth conduct of the examination. Seating arrangement, water supply and others have been provided at the examination centres.’’</p>.<p class="bodytext">Police personnel have been deployed and CCTV cameras are installed in all the examination centres.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Students cannot carry mobile phones to the centre. Chief superintendent can use a basic handset at the centre.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Deputy Commissioner Dr Bagadi Gautham has clamped prohibitory orders in a 200-metre radius of the examination centres. All the photocopy shops have been ordered to remain closed during the examination.</p>.<p><strong>Black badge protest</strong></p>.<p class="bodytext">Urging the fulfilment of demands, the PU lecturers will perform their duties during the PU examination by wearing a black badge.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Some of the demands are higher wages, staggered recovery of ex-gratia, promotions and redressal of workload.</p>.<p class="bodytext">PU College Lecturers’ Association district president Dr M D Sudarshan said that they were confident that the government would fulfil their demands before the evaluation of answer scripts began.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“If we fail to get any positive response, then we are planning to boycott the evaluation,” he added.</p>