Thiruvananthapuram: All records, including registers of SSLC examinations from 1957 to 2001, will be converted into digital format. SSLC records, after SSLC books were replaced by cards, have already been made digital. SSLC books were replaced by cards in 2001. The project was to complete the digitalisation within one year. During the first phase, SSLC book records for the five year period before 2001 will be made digital within one month, sources said. Keltron was given the charge of digitalisation of records. Keltron officials had met DPI K.V. Mohankumar last week to discuss details. They informed the DPI that the detailed project report of the project would be submitted on August 1, sources said.
The decision to go for digitalisation was taken after complaints on delay in processing of applications for corrections and issuing duplicate SSLC books issued before 2001, sources said. At present, when an application for correction or duplicate SSLC book is received at the Pareeksha Bhavan it is sent along with the SSLC blank book to the school where the student studied. The principal then filled the personal information of the applicants and returns it to Pareeksha Bhavan to enter the marks. This was causing delays. The present plan is to convert all old records at Pareeksha Bhavan into digital format. Education minister C Raveendranath had earlier set a deadline of December 2018 for completing the digitalisation process, sources said.
