LUCKNOW: Kept under the 'sensitive' zone for cheating, no case of copying was reported from UP’s Ballia district on first day of UP board examinations. In 2017, maximum of 24 cases of cheating were reported alone from Ballia. In fact, UP Secondary Education Board, which conducts the UP class X and XII board examinations received only 16 complaints of cheating by students, as against 110 received last year. Highest of three complaints came from Mathura, followed by two cases, each from Kannauj and Pratapgarh.Decoy team set up by Special Task Force of UP police managed to crackdown on Bal Bharti Inter College, which facilitated mass copying. According to additional SP, Allahabad unit Praveen Chauhan, some persons were found dictating answers to the examinees in a hall, where class XII students were appearing for general Hindi exam. School principal Shiv Prasad, invigilator Anil Tiwari and staff members Shiv Shankar Mishra were placed under arrest, and the cheating material was seized.Figures released by UPSEB showed that three FIRs were lodged. In Chandauli, Sudhir Kumar Singh, school manager of Rama Shankar Inter College and a 'fake’ invigilator, 22-year-old Surendra Pratap were sent behind bars for facilitating mass copying. Here, a class X girl was rusticated for using unfair means. In Pratapgarh, a case was registered against a student caught impesonating. In Gorakhpur, centre superintendent of Gram Sthali Balika Inter College was changed on doubts of mass copying.Overall, 1.80 lakh examinees skipped the exam. In class X, 53,100 candidates out of 9,77,854 who registered, remained absent. Class X students had Home Science in the first shift. In class XII, 1,27,726 examinees dropped out of the exam. Class XII students had Hindi in the morning shift and general Hindi in the afternoon shift. While 9,63,510 candidates had registered for Hindi, the figure for general Hindi was 18,98,301.Meanwhile, deputy chief minister Dinesh Sharma carried out surprise inspection of eight examination centres in Jaunpur. The visit came following recent reports of arrest of a book store owner for printing fake answer sheets of UP board exams here. The centres where Sharma visited were Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar Inter College, Kisan Adarsh Rastriya Inter College, Fauzdar Inter College, Bholanath Shastri Niketan Inter College, Swami Vivekanand Inter College, Balbhadra Inter College, Maharana Pratap Inter College and Government Girls Inter College.Though nothing objectionable was found from any of these centres, Sharma reiterated that his government is committed to conduct cheating free exams.