LUCKNOW: More students have failed in Hindi than in English in UP, a prominent part of Hindi belt. In class XII, 4.3% students flunked in Hindi while only 2.49% students failed in English. As many as 11,04,726 appeared for Hindi exam and 47,870 failed.In English, 22,91,854 took the exam of whom 56,986 failed. Figures released by the UP Board show the interest in regional languages is waning among students. Only 66 students opted for Punjabi, 47 appeared for Sindhi. All were declared succesful. There was only one student each who appeared for Marathi, Nepalese and Odiya, while three opted for Gujarati, four for Telgu, five for Bengali, eight for Tamil and 17 for Kannada.Two languages-Sanskrit and Urdu were the choice of a good number of students. In Sanskrit, 4,16,801 took the exam, of which 4,00,862 were successful. A total 54,895 students appeared for the Urdu exam and 53,426 passed.Identical grades too: Not just born with identical faces and studying together since beginning, Badrinath and Kedarnath, students of Lucknow Public College secured exactly 91.8 % each in their class XII UP Board examinations. But owing to different career choices, their togetherness may end now.