PRAYAGRAJ, Feb. 5 -- Round-the-clock monitoring has been stepped up for question papers being dispatched to examination centres ahead of the UP Board High School and Intermediate exams starting on February 18.

Dispatch of question papers began on January 30, and monitoring of the central control room has been underway since January 31. So far, papers have reached nearly half of the state's 75 districts, and the entire dispatch process is expected to be completed by February 10.

Bhagwati Singh, secretary, UP Board, said that strict surveillance is being maintained at all centres through both the live camera feeds and special monitoring teams formed by district inspectors of schools across the state. He added that like last year, the Boar...