Education Board Orders Urgent HSC Exam Surveillance

The Dhaka Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education has issued an “extremely urgent” set of directives aimed at enforcing stringent surveillance protocols for the upcoming Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations. Under these newly formalised regulations, every single examination centre designated for the upcoming assessments must be brought under comprehensive Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) camera monitoring.

To facilitate this massive regulatory oversight, the education board has officially demanded detailed technical operational information from all participating examination centres. The authorities have explicitly requested the submission of specific system credentials, which include the unique identification (ID) and password of each centre’s CCTV system, the manufacturing brand of the installed cameras, and the exact serial numbers of the operating electronic devices.

The primary regulatory body, the Dhaka Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board, has categorised this cross-institutional security directive as a matter of top priority. All heads of institutions and examination centre authorities have been strictly requested to compile and transmit the necessary digital records within the rigid deadline specified by the governing council.

Technical Protocols and Operational Infrastructure

The official directive mandates that all examination centres must maintain a permanent and uncompromised internet connection linked directly to their CCTV Digital Video Recorders (DVR) and Network Video Recorders (NVR). The central administration has established a final submission deadline, strictly instructing all related academic authorities to submit these comprehensive data packets to the board no later than 21 June.

This critical security measure has been formally enacted through an emergency official notification signed directly by the Controller of Examinations of the Dhaka Board, Professor Jasmin Taslima Banu. The urgent notification explicitly outlines that continuous internet connectivity for the DVR and NVR systems is an absolute prerequisite to enable the central board to conduct regular, real-time remote monitoring and systematic evaluation of the security infrastructure inside the examination rooms.

Standardised Submission and Institutional Compliance

To ensure complete administrative uniformity across hundreds of educational institutions, the directive signed by Professor Jasmin Taslima Banu has provided specific guidelines on how the technical data must be formatted and dispatched to the central database.

• Submission Channel: The required technical details, including the CCTV system IDs, operational passwords, hardware brands, and device serial numbers, must be sent via email to the board’s designated digital address: dhakaboardcontroller@gmail.com.

• Standardised Subject Line: To avoid administrative delays, institutions must strictly format the email subject line as “CCTV EIIN Number”.

• Official Protocol Example: The board provided a clear blueprint for the subject formatting, citing “CCTV 888888” as the standard template. In this scenario, individual educational institutions are required to substitute the placeholder numbers with their own unique, government-issued Educational Institution Identification Number (EIIN).

The central board has made it clear that this standardised framework is crucial for the efficient categorisation and instant retrieval of camera feeds during the active examination periods. The strict implementation of these surveillance measures across all examination centres is intended to ensure maximum transparency, prevent academic malpractice, and maintain the institutional integrity of the upcoming public examinations nationwide. All institutional heads are now legally obligated to audit their technical setups and ensure full compliance before the 21 June deadline.