COURTESY HT JULY 12
Rewari best, Mewat worst performer
SUCCESS STORY: Around 70.97% of students clear examination in Rewari, highest in the state
Students rejoice after announcement of the board examination results in Gurugram on Saturday. pt
Sunil Rahar
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ROHTAK : Class-10 students of Rewari district performed the best, while Mewat remained the worst performing district in the Board of School Education Haryana (BSEH) examinations, the results of which were declared on Friday.
Around 70.97% students cleared the examination in Rewari, the highest in the state. Nearly 70.05% students passed in Jind and 69.81% passed in Mahendergarh.
Haryana’s education minister Kanwar Pal’s home district Yamunanagar bagged the sixth position with 67.96% students passing the exam. Panchkula district has secured 11th position in the state with 65.16% students clearing the Class-10 exams.
It is an improvement from last year’s performance when the district had recorded a pass percentage of 53.23% and had ended on the 18th spot among 22 districts.
Karnal, the home town of chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar, stood 16th with 62.46% students passing. Bhiwani, where the BSEH headquarters is situated, ranked seventeenth with 61.13% students clearing the exam.
ROHTAK, AMBALA UNDERPERFORM
In Mewat, only 56.18% students cleared the exam, followed by leader of opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s home district Rohtak, where 58.58% students passed and state home minister Anil Vij’s Ambala with a 58.9% clearance rate.
On the reason for the poor performance of Mewat students, district education officer (DEO) Anoop Singh Jakhar said he had joined the post a month ago and he will inspect the reasons behind the dismal show.
“There is no doubt that the district has performed below expectations and the results of government schools are also not good. I have asked the school heads to find the reason behind the weak performance. We are preparing a list of schools whose students have performed poorly,” the DEO said.
On the road ahead, Ambala deputy director of education Sudhir Kumar Kalra said, “We had set the target to improve the result by 10%-15% this year, which we were able to. Government schools have scored around 54% this time, we will try to make it 70% next year. For this, we shall start working from the first day of re-opening of schools.”
Ambala topper, Pushpinder, who scored 98.2%, is interestingly, a student of Government Senior Secondary School, Majri where a peon doubles as a mathematics teacher.
WRITTEN EXPLANATION WILL BE SOUGHT
Rohtak district education officer Vijay Laxmi said that it was disappointing that despite having a good infrastructure, the district was one of the worst performing districts.
“We will try to produce better results next year. I will ask the school heads to give in writing where we lacked,” she said.
Rewari deputy commissioner Yashendra Singh said the district had topped in the state because of the joint contribution of teachers, parents and students.
“I am still focusing on improving the pass percentage in Rewari”, the DC added.
Meanwhile, on the recent decision to re-start board exams for Class 8, the education minister said, “Earlier, when taking board examinations were compulsory in Class 8 students would study hard, which helped them in their further studies. But, the previous government ended these exams, which affected students’ education. Now. we have re-implemented the board exams, which will bring good results.”
With inputs from Bhavey Nagpal and Tanbir Dhaliwal