All students fail Board exams in 150 Uttar Pradesh schools
Agra: All the students of 98 schools in Uttar Pradesh failed to clear the Class 10 Board examinations, while all the students of 52 schools failed to clear the Class 12 examination. The 150 schools include state government-aided as well as private schools. Further, many of these schools had less than 10 students enrolled for the exams.
Apart from this, 237 schools in the state have a pass percentage of less than 20.
Agra district inspector of schools, Vinod Kumar Rai said, “No student has passed in nine schools of Agra district. Seven schools have a zero percent result in high school and two in intermediate. The data was compiled for this year alone, and there are no compiled figures for schoolwise pass percentage in the state for the previous years. Suitable steps will be taken to raise academic standards in schools with poor performance in board exams.”
This year, in the class XII exams, 65.07% students passed in Agra district, while 81.09% passed class X exams. Last year’s figures were 84.32% and 89.30%, respectively.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
