Who said government schools perform a sidelined futile job? Well, it’s a punch in all those faces who think so. The recently announced academic results of Class 12 examinations will increase your confidence in government schools.
Delhi government schools have outraced private schools in the Class 12 examination results in 2017, for the second consecutive year. This news was not expected from the Delhi government who had effected stringent policies to thwart checking.
Government schools pass percentage at 88.27 per cent has outpaced private schools which has recorded a pass percentage of 79.27 percent. In 2016, the gap between government and private schools’ pass percentage was 2 per cent which has wideneed to 9% in 2017.
Deputy Chief Minister and Education Minister Manish Sisodia congratulated all children, teachers and principals for performing brilliantly and securing excellent scores.
“We had deputed SDMs and other district officials to keep a close watch on examination centres and ensure that cheating doesn’t take place. We knew there were several windows at exam centres where cheating was being enabled and we wanted to make sure that it did not happen under our watch,” said education minister Manish Sisodia.
“Children studying in government and private schools, are both ours. But it is a moment of pride that children studying in Delhi’s government schools are performing so much better than private schools. This remarkable result has been achieved despite the fact that this year we had prevented cheating in a big way,” he added.
RPVVs pass percentage is 99.7 percent and that of KVs is 94.6 percent. As many as 33 students have scored a perfect 100 score in one or more subjects. The number of schools which have a pass percentage of more than 90 per cent has gone up from 547 to 554 this year.
