Srinagar, Nov 09: The Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education (JKBOSE) on Monday said that it aims to declare results of annual regular exams of 10th, 11th and 12th by the second week of January.

Speaking to the reporters, JKBOSE Chairman, Ghulam Hassan Sheikh according to the news agency Kashmir News Observer, said, “Our exams are going very smoothly and in the coming two weeks we are going to culminate the exams. We hope that by the January-10, we will try to declare the results of all the classes.”

About the distribution of textbooks, the Board Chairman said that, “The process of distributing free textbooks to educational zones will be completed in 8-10 days. We distribute the free textbooks to Zonal Education Offices and after that it is the job of the Directorate of School Education to provide it to the eligible students.”

He said, “There are 8,20,000 students from classes 1st to 8th including 3,31,000 students of Kashmir division who are eligible for these free textbooks. This is the first time in years that we have started the work of book distribution along with the session.”

“We have issued a distribution schedule to the zonal officers and have directed them to keep an eye on the schedule,” he said.—(KNO)