UP Board Exams cheating: Yogi Adityanath takes swift action, govt issues helpline numbers

Lucknow: Following reports of rampant cheating during the Uttar Pradesh Board Examinations, the Uttar Pradesh government led by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday issued helpline numbers to help people register complaint of any wrong doing in any of the Centres where exams are scheduled.

The administration has released a WhatsApp number 9454457241 and a landline number 0522-2236760 for registering cheating related complaints in order to check incidents of cheating in UP Board Exams.

The administration has assured that the identity of the complainant will not be revealed.

Earlier this month, students were seen copying and taking help from outside at several centres in Mathura during Uttar Pradesh Board Examinations for Classes X and XII, following which over 70 students and teachers were been booked.

Pictures and videos showed friends and relatives of the students scaling walls and passing chits through windows at the exam centre.

While campaigning for the recently concluded UP Elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had alleged that tenders were floated to encourage adoption of wrong practices in examinations, like mass copying. "In Gonda, even theft is carried out as a trade...tenders are floated for allotting examination centres...this is not good for anyone and this should be stopped...this auction of examination centres should be stopped," he had said.

"Crime attached with education will spoil the coming generations," Modi had said.