CLASS 10 STUDENT WHO SKIPPED BOARD EXAM FOUND HANGING

LUCKNOW: A Class 10 student, who had skipped the ongoing UP Board examination, was found hanging from the ceiling of an abandoned room of a bungalow in Naka area here on Saturday. Police suspect it to be a case of suicide.

The student had disappeared five days back when the board exams began on Tuesday. His body was spotted when locals alerted police about foul smell emanating from the room.

Himanshu Patel, 19, had been living in the servant’s quarters of the bungalow along with the family of his maternal uncle Suresh Patel since the death of his parents.

He was a student of Harish Chandra Inter College, Sadar, Lucknow.

His maternal uncle told police that Himanshu was weak in studies and was under acute pressure.

The deceased had not left behind any suicide note but initial probe suggest that he took the extreme step due to examination pressure, said sub-inspector (S-I) Vaibhav Kumar Singh of Naka police station.

overall pass percentage in high school examinations had come down around 14 % . However, it again started to rise with Samajwadi Party at the helm,” he said.

Diwedi added that during the tenure of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) government with Mayawati as chief minister, pass percentage again dropped but “during SP rule between 2012 and 2017 the overall pass percentage for high school exams remained above 80%”.

As per Diwedi, with strict anti-cheating measures in place, the overall all pass percentage in high school and intermediate examination could drop to around 50% this year.

UP Board secretary Neena Srivastava said this year the authorities had adopted strict measures to ensure that the examinees do not use any unfair means while writing the exams.

Giving details of the measures taken, she said they had ensured online allotment of exam centres, installation of CCTV cameras across all the exam halls, deployment of armed police as well as Uttar Pradesh STF personnel to crackdown on the copying mafia besides a strict vigil being kept by administrative machinery of the state.