CBSE Class-12 result: Pass percentage dips in region

Girls outshined boys in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class-12 examinations in the Panchkula region comprising Chandigarh, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, and Jammu and Kashmir.
The government schools of Punjab had a particularly dismal performance, with 68% students failing. In Chandigarh, almost 72% students from government schools cleared the test. Of the 66,583 girl candidates in the CBSE’s Panchkula region, almost 87% passed, while of the 90,799 boys, a little more than 75% got through. The 1.57-lakh total candidates had an overall pass percentage of 80, down from 84 last year.
The pass percentage in independent private school is 88 for girls and 76 for boys.
Of the candidates appearing from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV), alternative school for gifted children from rural areas, 97% girls and 92% boys cleared the examinations. From the government schools in the region, almost 70% students made it though, while only 44% of private candidate managed to pass.
CBSE regional officer RJ Khanderao said his office would look for reasons for the decline in pass percentage “but in spite of it, I am happy with the overall result”.
Region’s report card
Total students 1.57 lakh
Pass 1.26 lakh
Boys passed 68,576
Girls passed 57,920
-
Bumper weekend at IKEA Bengaluru store: 'Not MLAs queuing in Maharashtra'. Watch
IKEA, the Swedish-founded, Dutch-headquartered multinational conglomerate, saw huge crowds in Bengaluru and a bumper weekend. This was also the fist weekend since the firm - that sells and designs ready-to-assemble furniture - opened the Karnataka capital's first store for the public. This happens to be the fourth store, however, for India - other stores are in Hyderabad, Navi Mumbai and Worli. Expectedly, the firm said it was "overwhelmed".
-
Plans prepared to promote natural farming in Haryana: Khattar
Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Sunday said his government has prepared a plan to promote natural farming on 50,000 acres of land. He said that farmers having land below 2.5 acres will be provided 50% subsidy for buying indigenous cows if they voluntarily adopt natural farming. Haryana agriculture minister JP Dalal said that 700 agriculture development officers will be recruited soon to provide better assistance to the farmers.
-
1,100 sport nurseries to come up in Haryana to keep youth away from drugs: CM
Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Sunday launched state narcotics control bureau's 'Mission Drug Free Haryana' on the occasion of International Day against Drug Abuse and Illegal Trafficking. He said that to keep youths away from drugs, 1,100 sport nurseries will be set up in the state and Haryana will soon emerge as a sports hub of the country with 1,000 coaches and yoga teachers.
-
Haryana: Man killed, mother injured in Fatehabad pileup
One person was killed and Sandeep Kumar's mother got injured in an accident that led to a pileup in Fatehabad on Sunday, said police. The accident took place when Sandeep Kumar along with his mother Maya Devi was going to Fatehabad.
-
Agnipath is yet another ill-conceived disruption: Cong
Reiterating its demand to revoke Agnipath scheme, the Congress on Sunday said the new recruitment policy was yet another ill-conceived disruption by the Centre that will create new problems for India's national security. “This government acts first, and then starts thinking. Many amendments have already been made in the last few days, but the youth of the country are demanding its complete rollback,” said Ranjeet Ranjan, Congress' Rajya Sabha MP, in a news conference here.