Only 45% primary students get first division

New Delhi: Tripura and Orissa fare the worst with less than 15 per cent of students scoring 60 per cent or above, says the latest District Information System for Education (DISE) data collected by the human resource development (HRD) ministry.

 

"Girls have performed slightly better than boys and the percentage of girls and boys passing with 60 per cent and above respectively is 45.12 percent and 44.96 percent," said the HRD ministry survey which covered all districts.

 

Sixty percent or more is considered as first division by many educational boards in the country.

 

Among the states that are doing really badly is Tripura, which is at the bottom of the pile with just 13.89 percent of students scoring 60 per cent.

 

Orissa follows suit with just 14.5 per cent scoring 60 per cent.

 

Similarly, nearly 26.5 per cent students from Assam, 37 per cent of students from Bihar, nearly 37 per cent from Uttar Pradesh, 21 percent in Madhya Pradesh, 28 per cent from Jharkhand, 23 per cent from Nagaland and nearly 46 per cent of students from West Bengal scored 60 p cent in Class 5.

 

Anil Sadgopal, an eminent educationist, said the dismal performance in primary schools should open the minds of the authorities at both the state and central levels.

 

"Many primary schools in India don't have basic infrastructure like proper buildings and blackboards. Thousands of teachers in schools are either unskilled or don't attend classes," Sadgopal, a member of the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE), told.

 

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