Bengaluru: Seven schools retured a ‘zero pass’ result in the recently concluded SSLC exams. Four out of the seven schools with zero pass percentage this year have recorded this ignominious feat for the second consecutive year. These are the Emmanuel High School, Ramaswamypalya, Rohini International Public School in Nayandahalli, Corporation Girls High School, Dayandanagar and ri Manjunataswamy High School, Nagashettyhalli
The education Department, has said that all four schools will be shut down.
Among them is the five-decade-old Emmanuel High School, Ramaswamypalya, which functions out of a small, decrepit building. All ten students have failed. “Last year, they sought time to improve the performance. However, after getting zero pass again, we will shut the school down,” said V. Ramesh, Block Education Officer – South 1.
Only two SSLC students at Rohini International Public School in Nayandahalli appeared for the examinations, and both failed.The school management blamed the results on the students’ inability to grasp “tough” subjects.
Corporation Girls High School, Dayandanagar, on the other hand had no teachers to teach its three students. The school, which is run by Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike, has three teachers hired on contract who were irregular in attendance, said Hanumanthraju, BBMP’s education officer. “The school was to be merged with another school in the area. We will ensure its merger happens before the start of the next academic year,” he said.
The department will also Sri Manjunataswamy High School, Nagashettyhalli, for again featuring in the zero pass percentage category.
74 PU colleges score zero in PU exams!
74 PU colleges recorded zero result this year. Of the 46 private colleges, one was aided and the rest unaided. Among the private colleges that had recorded zero result, 27 were located in north and north-east Karnataka.
Of the 28 Government Pre-University (PU) colleges that recorded zero pass percentage in the recent second PU results, 25 are located in north and north-east Karnataka, a telling testament to the complaint of government neglect in the region.
If it was Raichur district that occupied the last place (30th) in the results, it was its neighbor Gulbarga that had the dubious distinction of the highest number of PU colleges with zero results.
The hometown of former Chief Minister N. Dharam Singh, Jewargi, which he has been representing in the Karnataka Assembly for several years, also achieved this rare feat. All the 49 students from the Government PU College in this town in Gulbarga district recorded zero result.
Ironically, Bangalore South and Bangalore North education districts, which recorded 62.01 and 61.53 per cent results and occupied 4th and 6th places respectively, had 13 colleges with zero result. However, all these are unaided.
