All 441 students from Kerala safely reach exam centres

Dakshina Kannada administration arranges bus services, teachers also help

The Dakshina Kannada district administration arranged for safe ride of all the 441 SSLC students from Kerala from the border check-posts to examination centres in Mangaluru, Bantwal and Sullia taluks on Monday. The students were dropped back at the check-posts after the end of the three-hour-long examination. As many as 121 students were brought in three trips from the border check-post in Talapady to eight examination centres in Mangaluru. As many as 22 students came from border check-posts in Jalsoor and Badiyadka to centres in Sullia, Jalsoor and Bellare. One student was dropped by a teacher in his car from Talapady to the examination centre in Naringana in Bantwal taluk. An official from the office of the Dakshina Kannada Deputy Director of Public Instruction, who was in-charge of facilities at Talapady, said that Heera Public School provided three of its vehicles for transporting students from the Talapady check-post.