UP board results: 11 lakh candidates fail in Hindi

Lucknow: A total of 11, 19, 994 students in Classes 10 and 12 examination of the UP secondary education board have failed to pass in Hindi even though they live in the Hindi belt and a Hindi speaking state.

An education board official said, “Over 3.38 lakh students in intermediate have failed in Hindi while the number is twice as much in high school where 7.81 lakh students have not been able to clear the Hindi paper”.

Interestingly, students in intermediate who opted for regional languages including Assamese, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali etc have recorded 100 per cent success rate.

A senior teacher in a government inter school in Lucknow said, “Majority of the student tend to ignore Hindi as a subject. Even their parents ask the children to focus on subjects like mathematics, physics, chemistry and take Hindi for granted”. Meanwhile, UP board secretary Neena Srivastava said on Monday that a total of 150 schools affiliated to the UP board recorded zero results as all the students in these institutions failed to clear the 2018 high school and intermediate examinations. There were 98 such schools in the high school examination and 52 schools in the intermediate examination where not even a single student could pass the examinations. The list includes government schools as well.

Ms Srivastava attributed the zero results to strict anti-copying measures implemented with the help of state government.

The crackdown against the copying mafia as well as corrupt elements forced students to either quit examinations midway or prevented examinees from using unfair means.

Ghazipur, notorious as the hub of the copying mafia, had 17 such institutions with zero results. The number included 11 institutions where all students in class 10 were declared unsuccessful while in six schools, the students failed to clear the intermediate exams.