Organisations Disagree With Chitnis on Poor Results
Bhopal: Disagreeing with Education Minister Archana Chitnis and Secondary Education Board chairperson Snehlata Shrivastava on poor results of high school examination, several organizations have said that it is department’s laxity and wrong policies that did students in, not the polls.
These organizations attributed the dismal performance to the late availability of textbooks when the academic session started, failure of the department in ensuring training of teachers as per the changed syllabus, lack of adequate number of permanent teachers at the schools and above all, curtailment of 2008-09 session by over a month in a bid to start the new session (2009-10) in time.
“The state government spoiled the students’ career by making attempts to declare the results in a record time. Teachers engaged on contract basis cannot do justice to teaching as compared to teaching by trained teachers. The answer sheets should be re-evaluated,” demanded National Students of India (NSUI) state unit chief Rashmi Pawar.
Similarly, Ashasakiya Vidyalaya Sangathan (Private Schools Association) president Surendra Singh Baghel said that changes in the pattern of language papers like English and Sanskrit caused problem, and this, for rural students who already have difficulty with Mathematics and Science, aggravated situations.
Surprisingly, even ruling party’s student wing the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (AVBP) blames government.
“Elections alone can not be blamed. In fact, decline in standard of teaching is one of the major reasons behind the poor results,” ABVP general secretary Vishnu Dutt Sharma said.
This year the result of the aforementioned examinations dropped from last year’s 57.89 percent to 35.33 percent. The minister has ordered a probe to find out the reasons for the poor performance.
