Meerut: With 43,917 students from Class X and 39,870 students from Class XII, a total of 83,787 students are set to appear for the Uttar Pradesh boards exam on Tuesday in Meerut.The number of students has dipped from the previous year’s 89,462 students who had appeared in the exams. The students will be appearing for the exams at 107 exam centres in the district. Strict security will remain in place at all the exam centres to ensure that no unfair means are used during the exams. While the practical exams had already started, the formal exams will begin on Tuesday as the students will sit for their Hindi paper.“As many as 83,787 students are set to appear for UP Board exams on Tuesday. Out of the total students, 43,917 students are set to appear for boards from Class X and 39,870 students are set to appear for boards from Class XII. Meanwhile, 107 exam centres have been slotted for the exams in Meerut district,” said GK Chaudhary, district inspector of schools, Meerut.As many as 4,492 teachers will be on duty for the D-Day, which will have exams in the first and second shift from 8am to 11.15am and 2pm to 5.15pm. “The district has been divided into 19 sectors. Also, 144 CrPc has been imposed in the 200 metre radius of all the exam centres,” Chaudhary said.In 2018, the number of total students appearing for the board exams was 89,462 – which was higher than this year’s total. In 2017, the total number of students who appeared for the board exams in Meerut was 94,000 and in 2016, as many as 1.02 lakh students appeared for the exams. The number of students appearing in the district has dipped over the years and authorities say that the reason behind this is the cancellation of fake registration of students.In January 2019, a letter with life threat to secondary education department secretary of Meerut region and two others had created chaos in the Meerut education department here. The life threatening letter, authorities said, had come as the department authorities cancelled the registration of 7,000 students for the upcoming UP Board exams. These students had used fake documents for registration and the letter demanded that the decision of cancelling them should be revoked or one of the three will be murdered.

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