Pass percentage in region better than national average

PANCHKULA: Girls outclassed boys in the region by recording a better overall pass percentage in the CBSE Class 10 examination, the results of which were declared on Saturday.

The Panchkula region comprises Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Chandigarh. As per the data released by CBSE’s regional office here, girls recorded a pass percentage of 98.77. The figure for boys is 97.68%.

Of the 2,40, 206 students who appeared in the examination from the region, 1.47,797 were boys and 92,409 girls.

At 98.1, the overall pass percentage has remained changed in comparison to last year in the region. However, it is better than the national average of 90.95%,

In 2014, the figure was at 99.49%; it slumped to 97.9% in 2015 and increased marginally to 98.1% in 2016.

The region’s overall pass percentage, however, comes down to 94.34 if pass percentage of 834 private candidates are included in the results, reveals the data prepared by CBSE’s Delhi office.

Joseph Emmanuel, CBSE’s regional director at Panchkula said the overall pass percentage is based on the performance of regular students. “The private students result is not released with our result because their performance record remains with Delhi office,” he added. NEWDELHI: The Union health ministry has banned 32 private medical colleges from admitting students for two years, overruling a Supreme Court panel that had cleared their allegedly substandard facilities.

The ministry also forfeited the colleges’ security deposit of Rs 2 crore each. It has, however, allowed 4,000 undergrad students to continue studying at these institutes.

“We based our decision on the inspection report which highlighted gross deficiency of facilities. But the decision will not impact students already studying,” Arun Singhal, joint secretary, health and family welfare, told Hindustan Times.

Singhal did not explain why the government allowed the colleges that it found “unfit” to continue.

Over the years, undergrad medical studies in India have been mired in controversy, and a mushrooming of private colleges to meet growing demand has led to widespread corruption and a fall in the quality of medical education in the country.

In May 2016, the Supreme Court appointed a three-member Oversight Committee (OC), headed by former chief justice ML Lodha, to check alleged corruption at the Medical Council of India, which regulates such studies, and suggest ways to improve standards.

By the time the court panel was constituted, the MCI had completed inspecting 109 new colleges that had applied to admit medical students in 2016.

The MCI allowed only 17 colleges.