Uttar Pradesh Quiz: Education, Universities and Health in UP

The UP Board has its headquarters at Prayagraj, formerly Allahabad, with regional offices elsewhere in the state, and the Basic Shiksha Parishad that looks after classes one to eight is seated in the same city.

The board was created by an Act of 1921 and held its first examination in 1923, which makes it one of the oldest school examination boards in the country as well as one of the largest by the number of candidates.

Malaviya founded Banaras Hindu University at Varanasi in 1916, raising its funds by public subscription, and it grew into what is usually described as the largest residential university in Asia; the Institute of Medical Sciences and the engineering college that became IIT (BHU) are part of it.

The University of Allahabad was founded in 1887, which makes it the fourth oldest modern university in India after those of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras, and it was converted into a central university in 2005.

Sir Syed Ahmad Khan founded a school at Aligarh that grew into the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College in 1875, and that college was raised to the status of Aligarh Muslim University in 1920.

The Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, established in 1983, is the state's leading referral and postgraduate medical institute, and it stands at Lucknow along with King George's Medical University and the Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences.

IIT Kanpur was founded in 1959 and was built up in its early years with the help of a consortium of American universities, which gave it an early lead in computer science and aeronautical engineering.

In the Census of 2011 Gautam Buddha Nagar, the district of Noida on the edge of Delhi, recorded the highest literacy rate in the state, while Shrawasti in the eastern districts recorded the lowest; the state's own rate was 67.68 per cent.

The Central Drug Research Institute stands at Lucknow, which also holds the Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, the National Botanical Research Institute and the Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, all of them laboratories of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.

The Gorakhpur and Basti divisions of eastern Uttar Pradesh form the country's best-known belt of acute encephalitis syndrome and Japanese encephalitis, and Baba Raghav Das Medical College at Gorakhpur is the main centre treating it, with a Regional Medical Research Centre of the Indian Council of Medical Research in the…