Karnataka: Nearly 58% students fail to clear SSLC supplementary exam

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July 13, 2019

Bengaluru, Jul 13: Only 42.47 percent of the 1.92 lakh candidates who appeared for the SSLC supplementary examination in June this year have cleared the boards.

While more than half of the candidates were unable to clear the examination, the performance this year did see a marginal improvement compared to the previous year when the pass percentage was 40.69%.

An analysis of the results reveals that students in unaided schools fared the best — 44.96% of candidates from these schools cleared the examination.

The pass percentage in government and aided schools is 40.95% and 42.27% respectively.

The highest marks secured by the candidate in the supplementary examination was 584. Data by the board showed that four students bagged centums in two examinations even though they had failed or not appeared in the March/April 2019 examinations.

The trend in the supplementary examination results followed a similar pattern to the main board exams: Girls with 47.67% passes, fared better than boys who secured a pass percentage of 39.53%.

Students in rural areas — who bagged a pass percentage of 43.34 — fared better than their urban counterparts who secured 41.63%. Two students bagged A+ in the supplementary examination, while the maximum number of students of the percentage that passed – 53.27 – bagged a C+.

An analysis of students performance based on the language of instruction showed that students in Urdu medium secured the highest passes with 55.86% clearing the boards.

The pass percentage of the others are: Kannada (40.99%), English (43.96%), Marathi (44.07%), Telugu (41.59%), Tamil (24.07%) and Hindi (41.1%). Around 35.61% of the total 1,438 students who were differently-abled passed.

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March 7,2020

Mysuru, Mar 7: Karnataka Minister for Medical Education K Sudhakar on Saturday said that State Government may consider suspending the touch-based Biometric time and Attendance system for its employees in view of the COVID-19 threat.

Speaking to media persons while inspecting the medical infrastructure at KR Hospital here on Saturday, he said that many IT companies have already suspended the Biometric Attendance system in a bid to prevent the spread of the virus. Given the threat perception, the government was also contemplating the same and would consider it. However, he did not specify the date.

With regard to the preparedness to handle the threat, the Minister said the government was extremely cautious since last 20 days and had taken all precautionary measures. “All international passengers at the airport are being screened and so far nearly 1 lakh passengers have been screened and anyone with symptoms will be quarantined for 28 days.’’

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April 29,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 29: The Karnataka police department has decided not to deploy its personnel aged above 55 as frontliners in Covid-19 related duty.

According to order issued here on Wednesday by Director General of Police Praveen Sood, it was a precautionary measure as the elderly was more susceptible to the risk of infection.

Apart from this, the order also states that any police personnel suffering from diabetes, hypertension, asthma, kidney, liver-related problems and cardiovascular disease must also be kept away from Coronavirus duty. The policemen can be deployed for station duty.

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May 8,2020

Mangaluru, May 8: Dr Arathi Krishna, former deputy chairman of Karnataka NRI Forum, today called on Karnataka chief secretary Vijaya Bhaskar and urged him to exert pressure on the Centre through chief minister to expedite evacuation of Kannadigas stuck in Saudi Arabia amidst covid-19 lockdown. 

She also conveyed the message from labourers in Gulf countries requesting for free quarantine facility upon their arrival. Positively responding to the demand, Mr Bhaskar said that free quarantine facility will be arranged at BSF base in Bengaluru apart from paid quarantine facility in different hotels and guest houses.

Dr Arathi Krishna told coastaldigest.com that she also spoke to the officials in-charge of Gulf in the Ministry of External Affairs  and requested them to take necessary steps to add more special flights from Gulf countries to Karnataka. 

The officials have promised to consider operating flight from Riyadh to Mangaluru via Dammam in the second wave of evacuation, the schedule of which is expected to be announced in a few days, she said.

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