Amid Yogi Government’s Crackdown On Cheating, Over 45,000 Madrasa Board Students Skip Exam In UP  

Amid a large-scale crackdown on cheating in Uttar Pdaresh, over 45,000 Madrasa Board students did not appear for the exam on the first day.

A total of 2,41,000 students had registered with the Madrasa Board this year for the exams of munshi, maulvi, aalim, kamil and fajil. More than 17,000 seminaries in the state come under the Madrasa Board. Over 5,000 madrasa had pulled their shutters down after the state government ordered them last year to enrol on an online portal launched to monitor the institutions.

Around 10 lakh students of the 66 lakh-odd who registered for the Uttar Pradesh Board exams had not taken the tests due to strict measures implemented by the board after Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced a state-wide crackdown on cheating. Around 1,900 students were caught copying during the exams.

The Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party government was accused of not taking steps to stop organised cheating rackets in schools.

Commenting on the steps taken by the current government to prevent students from using unlawful means, Yadav, a father of three school-goers, appeared to support the practice. "Everybody does a little bit of cheating", he had said.

After assuming power in 1993, SP leader and Akhilesh Yadav’s father Mulayam Singh Yadav had abolished the Anti-Copying Act introduced by the Bharatiya Janata Party government headed by Kalyan Singh in 1992.