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VOL. 27, NO. 41, June 27 , 2008 (Ashadh 13 2065 B.S.)
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Small Respite
The pass percentage this year has improved but it is a small respite
By A CORRESPONDENT
The iron gate of school education, the School Leaving Certificate (SLC), had, indeed, turned out to be iron-gate not allowing many to pass through it for these many years.
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Students: Checking out their result |
This year, however, the gate opened a little bit more. Although only 64 percent of regular examinees were successful in passing this year's SLC examinations – it was the highest record.
Of the 307,078 examinees who appeared in this year's SLC examination, 1,95,689 have passed – which is 63.73 percent, the highest ever pass percentage in history of the examination.
According to results published by the Office of the Controller of Examinations (OCE) late Sunday (June 22) evening, altogether 9,882 students have secured distinction by obtaining over 80 percent marks.
Similarly, a total of 74,707 students secured first division, while 105,592 and 5,508 made it with second and third division, respectively. Of the total number of students who passed, 112,975 were boys and 82,714 were girls.
The SLC examination this year had been held in March.
Altogether 58.64 percent students had made it through the examination last year.
Among the total number of examinees, 1088 students had dropped the exam and the result of other 1,105 have been withheld. Similarly, 32.24 percent of the total 59,963 exempted students passed this year's SLC examination. Of them, 635 students passed in first division while the number of exempted students passing in second and third division stand at 15,793 and 2,907 respectively.
Experts have said that the high pass percent this year was because of provision that SLC examination questions would be asked only from the syllabus of Grade X unlike in previous years when both Grade IX and X syllabus were part of the SLC exam.
APF HOSTAGE CRISIS ENDS WITH A PACT
The disgruntled Armed Police Force (APF) personnel of Bageshwori barracks based at Sumshergunj in Banke district Monday released all 17 officers taken hostage on Saturday (June 21) after signing a 22-point agreement with the Home Ministry representatives, reports Kantipur.
The agitating APF police personnel released three DSP and 14 inspectors in fine condition after holding talks with the Home Ministry team. The Home Ministry team comprising Joint Secretary Mod Raj Dotel and APF Assistant Inspector General (AIG) Narayan Pandey reached Nepalgung Sunday to negotiate with the agitating APF personnel. Around 200 irate APF constables had launched the protest accusing their seniors of misbehaving, inflicting torture and providing them with indecent food.
They have claimed that no further incidents occurred at the battalion on Saturday, although local residents had issued a number of complaints. The agitating APF officers had forwarded a 26-point demand letter to the home ministry on Sunday.
Some of their key demands included severe action against chief of the battalion Hari Shanker Budathoki for corruption, an end to physical and mental torture and equal and decent food for all. APF AIG Pandey conceded that the issue concerning misconduct in the battalion had occurred repeatedly, but could not be corrected due to internal weaknesses.
The Home Ministry's joint secretary Dotel, APF AIG Narayan Pandey, Armed and Nepal Police Mid-Western Region's DIGs and chief district official Narendra Raj Sharma were among the negotiators.
