System to be operational from March 15 The private schools and the SSC Board are at loggerheads with each other on the contentious issue of downloading of hall-tickets for the ensuing SSC exams that are scheduled to begin from March 22. The SSC Board has launched the online system for the first time from this year. As part of that system, a student can directly download his/her hall-ticket from the board’s website “http://www.bseap.org” and appear for SSC exams.

The system has been operational form March 15. Normally, the managements of private schools use halltickets as weapon to collect fee arrears of students from their parents at the end of the academic year. As a result, parents and students have been under undue pressure to clear the dues. However, there is no such pressure on them with hall-tickets now being easily accessible through the SSC Board’s online system. School managements who are concerned over how to collect the fee arrears in the absence of their control over issuing hall-tickets are demanding the SSC board either take the responsibility to pay the fee arrears of students or ask parents to clear the dues immediately.

No wonder, if the school managements now are at the receiving end. “Who will take the responsibility, if our fee-arrears wouldn’t be paid after the exams?” asked S. Sreenivas Reddy, president of AP Recognised Schools’ Managements Association. Online system first of its kind in state The online system has been launched for the first time from this year. Students can download their hall-tickets directly from the board's website `http://www.bseap.org' .