New Delhi, Feb 10: Till the second day of the ongoing UP Board exams, a total of 40,392 students have been marked absent. According to the statistics released by UP Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad, as many as 20,674 students skipped the exam on the first day.
“Around 40,392 candidates did not turn up to write their examinations. This is the number that we have tabulated after compiling students’ attendance on the completion of the first two days of the exams. We can’t say exactly if it is due to strict measures put in place to put an end to copying,” Neena Srivastava, Secretary, UP Board, has been quoted as saying to a national daily.
Around 15 per cent of students didn’t take exam
In 2018, as many as 10,44,619 students, which is nearly fifteen per cent of the total number of the registrations, did not appear to write the UP Board exams.
Special Task Force to keep copying mafia away
In order to keep the copying mafia away from the test centres, a Special Task Force (STF) has been appointed this year as well like the last year. Earlier, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had also asked all district magistrates and district inspector of schools to stay extra alert.
Mukesh Kumar Singh, the district inspector of schools, Lucknow, informed that agriculture and music papers were conducted on Friday for the students of high school and intermediate respectively. He went for inspection to Gandhi Inter College in Alambagh area and other centres.
“Strict measures, including the heavy deployment of police, have been put in place. Invigilation staff has been instructed to ensure that unfair means are not used. We are trying for the first time to hold examinations in 16 working days, which should be a record in itself. Sector and zonal magistrates at exam centres have also been deputed to check any untoward incident,” Srivastava told a news daily.
For high school and intermediate exams, as many as 58,06,922 students were registered. Of these, 26,11,319 were for intermediate and 31,95,603 were for high school examinations.
A sharp fall of about nine lakh students as compared to last year can be seen in the registrations for this year’s exams due to the strictness imposed last year.