AGRA: Taking credit for implementing strict measures against ‘education mafia’ in Uttar Pradesh board exam, deputy chief minister claimed, that there is a steep decline in the number of students enrolment for the 2019 board examination even after twice notifications.Addressing to media during his visit on Sunday in Agra, Dinesh Sharma said, “For upcoming board examination only 57 lakh students have enrolled their names in comparison to 66.37 lakh, which clearly indicates that around 10 lakh bogus candidates or outsider have refrained from facilitating organised cheating in the exam, which is a big success.”He said, “The world's largest state board examination will begin from February 7 and will continue for nearly two and a half months. For enrolment of students in board examination, we made Aadhaar compulsory to fill a form and organised registration centre at government schools for private school students. The probe by special task force found that, imposters were brought from outside of state to appear in the examination. Strict measures were taken against ‘notorious’ examination center to ensure fair examination.”According to state government in 2018, a total of 66,37,018 students had registered themselves for board examination- 36,55,691 for class 10 and 29,81,327 for class 12- out of which about 75 per cent of the nearly 11 lakh students who skipped 2018 year state board examinations were from neighbouring states, and some of them were even from foreign countries like Nepal and Bangladesh.The deputy cm added, “In comparison to the previous regime in state which opened 48 schools a year, the current Yogi Adityanath government opened 205 modern schools in just one year. Including 166 under the name of Deen Dayal Upadhyay, while rest others were opened in places dominated by schedule cast and scheduled tribes. We are planning to open 92-degree colleges out of which some would be on the name of former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee and others on Mahatma Gandhi to mark 150 anniversary of his birthday.”

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