Patna, Dec. 4: A few more months and Bihar School Examination Board would go hi-tech.

In its attempt to become more student-friendly, renovation and computerisation works are going on at a fast pace at the board’s Frazer Road office.

“In a few months’ time, the (renovation and computerisation) work will be completed at the board’s office, giving it a corporate look,” Rajmani Singh, the chairman of Bihar School Examination Board, told The Telegraph.

The renovation work had started in the office after Rajmani Singh assumed the post of the new chairman of the office in April this year. The board office will have a separate cabin for staff and officers and all the work will be computerised, as the board wants to get rid of its age-old system of file work. The new board office will be similar to the existing human resource development (HRD) department that has been recently christened as education department.

There will be cabin for officers who will be assisted with junior-level staff. The board office would install all its past records and data in the system.

“The biggest advantage of computerisation of all records and data is that the students visiting our office will not have to wait for too long to get their certificates, marksheets or other documents,” Singh said.

Moreover, the board is going to update www.biharboard.bih.nic.in, its existing website . With an updated website, the students can get all sorts of information and even post their queries and suggestions through the same. The website will have a separate column through which students can send their queries or any other information related to the board.

“Once everything is complete and sorted, students even in remote Khagaul can get their marksheets and certificates sitting at their doorstep. All the students have to do is submit the details in the website online and fees through a bank account of the board following which the board shall do the rest,” an official said.

The board is in the process of negotiating a bank, which will be its partner in the process because the money deposited electronically would first go to the account of the Bihar State Examination Board at a bank. Earlier, students had to come down to the board’s Patna office and they could obtain the marksheet and the certificate one months after depositing the money.

For the reconstruction and colouring of the board’s office, the building construction department of the state government has pumped in Rs 70 lakh.