All students of a government girls’ school in Hisar district of Haryana have failed to clear their Class X examination this year.
A total of 24 girls from the school in Kabrel village appeared for the exam but failed to score pass marks, said a State Education Department official. It was the only school to have fared so badly, he said. The Haryana Board of School Education, Bhiwani, declared the result last month.
The villagers of Kabrel have held the State government and the Education Department responsible for the poor result.
“On the one hand, the government is laying so much emphasis on ‘Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao’ programme, and on the other hand, the authorities have done nothing to solve the problem of shortage of staff in the school,” a villager said.
Staff shortage
The village panchayat members met the district administration officials several times demanding more teachers in the school but the administration failed to fullfil their demands, he claimed. The school had no teachers for Sanskrit, Hindi, science and mathematics in the last academic session, said Dharam Singh, the village head. “The students complained several times, but to no avail,” he said.
There are no teachers for various subjects in the school for the last four years, said a village elderly.
The post of the headmaster is lying vacant for the last four years, said a teacher of the school. He said out of 24 girls who failed in the exam, 15 have taken re-admission in the school. District Education Officer B S Sehrawat could not be contacted for a comment.