Would-be MBA students getting ready to take the GMAT might be in for a little surprise when they show up at the testing center. In addition to all the usual security measures—including video monitoring and the computer adaptive test itself—test takers will soon be asked to submit to a new one: a biometric device that uses an infared light to capture the test-taker’s unique “palm vein pattern.”

Pearson VUE, the company that administers the GMAT for the Graduate Management Admission Council, plans to announce the new security effort tomorrow, but BusinessWeek got a sneak peak at it today.

The Fujitsu “PalmSecure” device will be rolled out next month at 16 testing centers in India and Korea for GMAT candidates. It goes live in the U.S. this fall, and when fully deployed will be used in 400 facilities in 107 countries by May 2009.

The announcement comes as the b-school world is embroiled in a cheating scandal involving the GMAT–users of a now-defunct test prep Web site, Scoretop.com, have been accused by GMAC of using it to post and access live test questions, and GMAC has said it will cancel the test scores of anyone who violated its rules.

But the new security measure is designed to stop a different kind of cheating–the use of professional test takers, or proxies, to take the exam on behalf of someone else. GMAC’s been burned by this type of cheater before. Back in 2003, it busted a half dozen people who took the GMAT for others for about $5,000 a pop. GMAC canceled 166 scores as a result, and five of the six imposters ended up at Rikers.

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The announcement National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), demand and pushed aside and non-effort pushed the Union Member of the Planning Commission BN Yugandhar said here Monday.

A fund is created and pooling resources from various systems, such as the National Food for Work, Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana and the region back Grants Fund, said Yugandhar journalists after opening a workshop organized by the Round Table on public expenditure (PERT), Institute of Management Consultants and Madras, India University’s Department of Management Studies, to rethink approaches to the provision of public services.

Prisé as 50 other districts would be chosen for the NREGS (in addition to the 150 covered under the national programme Food for Work Program), he said that the selection of parameters such as GDP per capita agricultural productivity, wages and the population covered Box / Scheduled Tribes. “These parameters are value neutral and acceptable to all States,” he said.

Panchayats village social audit of the money under the regulation.

Earlier, in his address, “said Yugandhar with the introduction of a number of systems, each district was more and more additional funds in an amount of Rs 100 crores of RS. 300 crores per year, without spending plan of the Federal state governments.

He proposed that the resources available with the development of systems constituency Members of Parliament and members of legislatures are used for public financing of elections.

K. Venkataraman, said the chairman of the PERT of the exercise of preparing budgets result would be useful if the system has tainted surrender.

The range of USA, President George W. Bush at its peak up the safety profile of four visits to the city is constantly wrapped. What is past is known, it comes at Hyderabad, on the morning of March 3.

What is speculation, which would for a few hours. At the beginning of the list is the possibility to announce the opening of a consulate in Hyderabad.

American Embassy officials had announced that executives, bearing in mind that the maximum number of visa applications for the USA on the American Consulate in Chennai east of Andhra Pradesh, it would be desirable, opening an office in Hyderabad.

In addition, the Consulate in Chennai is the maximum number of visa applications throughout the world. So far, however, that Bush, such an announcement has not yet been confirmed.

U.S. consulate officials in Chennai, in the city in preparation for the visit of President TOI told that they have not yet said, such an approach, either by the U.S. embassy in New Delhi, officials and by the team of White House officials, at present in the city.

Insofar as his movement in the city is affected, after talks with government officials, police and officials from the consulate that we are together, that Bush visit Acharya NG Ranga Agricultural University (ANGRAU) Rajendranagar the outskirts of the city and the Indian School of Business (ISB), near Hi-Tec City, while Laura Bush visit Osmania University College for Women in KOTI and freedom of the Foundation HIV / AIDS and de - Addiction Centre in Bowenpally.

All these visits were in the air and a helicopter, they added. Advanced Security the USA teams have been visiting these places in the last few days and sanitation.

But so far, the two ANGRAU and ISB has planned, despite their teams have been prospecting sites, where it is not yet clear that the American president.

Regarding Laura Bush, while KOTI Women’s College officials said they were informed that the First Lady, the historic visit of local colleges, belonging to Freedom Foundation said it was not visit.

“There is no visit by Laura Bush at our centre. We said today. We also said that the possibility of establishing once and for IBS, if and when the president visited the school,” said the Foundation Centre in Hyderabad-Charge Dr. Troy Cunningham.

In this phase, the objective of his visit to Hyderabad, itself is not clear. “If this is not the case, to announce the opening of a consulate, why choose Hyderabad Bush that the only place to visit others as New Delhi,” asked a government official.

“It’s only an opportunity to work. There should be no more out of it, “said an official of the American consulate in Chennai. When former President Bill Clinton visited India in 2000, the first visit by an American president in 23 years, he also visited Hyderabad, where he launched a collection selected in the Hi-Tec - city.