lucknow tin shed for a roof no plaster on three walls with a missing fourth no windows for fresh air and plucked out bricks for ventilation this is but a classroom at janta inter college khadauha malihabad which has curiously passed muster as a state board exam venue outside a stray dog steals its forty winks inside a bunch of diligent examinees write endlessly on reams of paper under the strict vigil of closedcircuit television cctv cameras the up government may have successfully given the board exams a booster dose of technology but many a school in rural parts of the district are acutely ailing in terms of infrastructureif the janta inter college classroom resembled a hovel the building of mahatma gandhi inter college yet another examination centre lacked the safety of a boundary wall hundreds of students took their first board test in a building hemmed in by farms while a temporary barricade prevented vehicles from parking outside the classrooms outsiders had easy access to students in the absence of a boundary wall the seating plan was hung on the barricade again in the absence of a boundarythe appearance of rdkp inter college in maal was no solace either students wrote their paper under a tin roof and the walls were without plaster but like the other centres there were surveillance camerasdistrict inspector of schools dios mukesh kumar singh said maal and malihabad had very few government cradles to ensure that no unfair means are used we select schools that are either run by the government or are governmentaided these institutions were our only choice he said singh emphasised that since they were struggling with funds infrastructure revamp wasnt possible but strict vigil through cctv cameras police and invigilators are being kept at the centres to ensure 100 transparency in the conduct of board examinations he added