Technology is coming in to address two of the biggest issues that education in India faces: leakage of question papers and forgery of marksheets and certificates reports the Times of India

Institutions like Bangalore University and Visveswaraya Technological institute are considering a technology that will enable them to print question papers at the examination venue just an hour before the test.

As for the forgery prevention technology that involves putting barcodes on marksheets, the International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, implemented it last year, and several others like Bangalore University are now planning to adopt it.

In the traditional question paper distribution method, these papers are printed at a central site and sent out to different exam centres where they are expected to be kept in "safe" custody until the exam date. The trouble is that leakages happen either at the central printing site or the exam centre.

With the new technology, the question paper is converted into a digital format and encoded (so that nobody can read it). This is then stored in a server as a PDF attachment in an email.

A special printer is installed at the exam location. The printer, connected to the internet, will locate the email from the server, decode the attachment and print the desired number of copies.