West UP pips east in board battle

ALLAHABAD: Districts in western Uttar Pradesh which had earned infamy for communal violence in recent past finally got an opportunity to cheer when its students performed better than eastern counterparts.


Ghaziabad district came out with the best passing percentage 89.60% in class X, followed by 88.20% in

Muzaffarnagar

and 87.88% in Shamli.

Director, secondary education,

Awadh Naresh Sharma

said west UP divisions had fared better. There are five divisional offices of UPSEB. Meerut division is ranked first with 80.78% of students clearing the exam while Varanasi was fifth with only 71.31% result. In Intermediate exam, Lucknow district topped with 91.24% students being declared successful while

Amroha

was placed second with 91.15%, followed by Ghaziabad in third place with 90.82% result. Muzaffarnagar, Shamli and Shaharanpur were ranked in top 15 districts in class 12 result.

Districts in east UP did not perform well class 10 exam with Pratapgarh being at the bottom of the list with lowest success percentage of 53.65%, with

Kaushambi

at 55.69% and Allahabad at 56.39% being above it.