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Just 38.83% pass 12th Boards: Teachers’ crisis in Arunachal Pradesh needs a solution

Jun 06, 2017 05:25 PM IST

One of the reasons for the dismal pass percentage of just 38.83 in the Class 12 CBSE can be attributed to shortage of teachers in Arunachal Pradesh

One of the reasons for the dismal pass percentage of just 38.83 in the Class 12 Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) could be attributed to shortage of teachers in Arunachal Pradesh, especially for science, maths and English. A much better performance of the government-run schools in the districts which share a long border with China-occupied Tibet could perhaps prompt authorities to take a closer look at what’s going wrong in the state.

Class 12 results in Arunachal Pradesh were declared on June 1. A mere 5,443 of the 14,016 students who appeared for the exams were successful, with the pass percentage working out to 38.83%.(Getty Images/iStockphoto)
Class 12 results in Arunachal Pradesh were declared on June 1. A mere 5,443 of the 14,016 students who appeared for the exams were successful, with the pass percentage working out to 38.83%.(Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Arunachal Pradesh does not have a state education board. This frontier north-eastern state thus follows the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) that conducts the annual Class 12 or All India Senior School Certificate Examination.

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This year’s Class 12 results in the state were declared on June 1. A mere 5,443 of the 14,016 students who appeared for the exams were successful, with the pass percentage working out to 38.83%.

The success rate of private schools across the state’s 21 districts averaged 82.70% with East Kameng district scoring the highest of 100% and Papum Pare the lowest of 60.75%.

But government-run higher secondary (HS) schools, the performance chart revealed, located closer to the McMahon Line separating India and Tibet, did better than those farthest from it.

Arunachal Pradesh has 84 government-run HS schools.

Tawang district, at the core of Beijing’s claim on Arunachal Pradesh, topped the list of government schools with a success rate of 72.54%.

The district has only two such schools – one each in headquarters Tawang and Lumla – and of the 244 students who appeared for the exam, 177 passed.

Government schools in Upper Siang and Kurung Kumey districts, both sharing a long border with Tibet, followed Tawang with a success rate of 68.60% and 57.14%, respectively.

Anjaw in southern Arunachal Pradesh, which bore the brunt of the Chinese attack in 1962 along with Tawang, too put up a decent performance with 52.76%.

But the performance in government schools in more accessible districts such as Longding and East Kameng has been disappointing. The two districts averaged 17.45%.

Officials have attributed the poor performance to a combination of three factors – shortage of language, science and mathematics teachers, no-detention policy for students for up to Class 8 under the Right to Education Act, and non-creation of teachers’ post in schools upgraded to higher secondary.

“We have taken up these issues with the government. Hopefully, they will be addressed soon for improving the school results in Arunachal Pradesh, possibly the worst in the northeast,” Marken Kadu, joint director of school education, told HT from Itanagar.

Districts sharing a long border with Tibet have been better off in terms of teachers and quality of students.

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