ludhiana punjab school education board pseb is all set to introduce distance education programme for classes x and xii the boards decision has been forwarded to education department for further actionaccording to information from 2010 to 2011 there would be no provision in place allowing students to appear as private candidates if a child is not in a position to appear as a regular student in class x or xii exams he would have to take the exam under the distance education programme in which students would be given notes and syllabi they will have to attend the personal contact programme so that the desired result could be achievedgiving information about it pseb chairman dalbir singh dhillon said the results of private students have been a cause for concern we have been contemplating action to bring about improvement when it comes to results of students appearing as private candidates in classes x and xii we decided to formulate this policy so that students get a fair idea of the syllabus and of how to prepare for the examalthough the board has forwarded the proposal to education department for its reaction and approval it is yet to take any decision with regard to fees and other dues meanwhile students have their fingers crossedabhimanyu yadav a class x dropout who intends to take class xii exams said the main issue of concern would be the fee structure if the fee is on the higher side students would drop the idea of appearing in the exam financial constraints compel students to leave regular school and go for other optionsmarked increaseevery year the number of class xii students who appear as private candidates in pseb exams is increasing in 2007 10000 students took the exam from the district either as private candidates or through the open school and in 2008 12000 students appeared as private candidates authorities feel this year too the figure would cross that for the last yearclass x results over the yearsyear regular students result private students result2007 65 502008 75 50352009 8831 7407