Beti Padhao? All girls of Hisar school flunk Class X

Deepender Deswal

Tribune News Service

Kabrel (Hisar), June 25

It seems the Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao campaign is yet to reach Kabrel village of the Adampur segment in the district.

Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS) has produced the worst result of the district this year in the matriculation examination as none of the students in the batch of 24 girls could pass the examination.

This is the only government school having zero result this year.

Villagers said they had anticipated poor result, as the school had a shortage of teachers in the previous session. The village panchayat kept on making many rounds of the offices of the district administration, demanding teachers.

Village sarpanch Dharm Singh said the village school had no teacher of science, mathematics, Hindi and Sanskrit, while the social science teacher of the village had been sent to another school on deputation.

“Students had complained about the absence of teaching staff. I visited the District Education Officer (DEO) several times, asking him to deploy teaching faculty. But the teachers were transferred to this school only four months before the examinations,” he said.

The head teacher of the school, Ramphal Singh, too, blamed shortage of staff as the cause behind the zero per cent result. “The newly deployed teachers tried hard to improve the academic situation. But we realised that the academic standards were below average,” he said, saying that the school had seven teachers of various subjects to teach 126 students from Class VI to X. 

Out of the 24 girls who failed in the matriculation examination, 14 have got re-admission in the school. 

DEO BS Saherawat refused to comment on the matter.