Muzaffarnagar: Nearly 280 inmates lodged in various jails of Uttar Pradesh will appear for the state board examinations beginning on Thursday.

A total of 279 inmates will be appearing for the state boards this year, with 153 appearing for the intermediate exam and 126 for the high school examination, District Jail Superintendent, Rajender Singh said. He said the state government has set up eight examination centres for the inmates at Dasna, Firozabad, Bareilly, Banda, Gorakhpur, Fatehgarh, Varanasi and Lucknow jails.