Giving valuable advice and tips to students during their board exams is important to build their confidence.
The man was identified as Praveen Mall, who was the manager-cum-principal of a private school in Mau district, about 300 km from Lucknow.
In the video, the principal says:
I can challenge that none of my students ever fail, they have nothing to be scared of. Don’t leave any answers. Just put a Rs. 100 note in the answer sheet, the teachers will blindly give you marks. Even if you answer a question wrongly, which is for four marks, they will give you three marks.
Even a state-level monitoring and control room for CCTV surveillance and monitor voice recordings has been set up.
Around 2 lakh invigilators have been appointed on duty and nearly 2 lakh CCTV cameras have been installed at various centres in 75 districts of the state.
The Uttar Pradesh Secondary Education Board (UPSEB) has identified 938 centres as “sensitive” and 395 as “hyper-sensitive”, suggesting that these centres are vulnerable to such practices.
People on social media were also shocked by the advice given by the principal and this is what they had to say:
The Uttar Pradesh Secondary Education Board (UPSEB) exams began across the state on Tuesday.