States »EasPosted at: Aug 5 2021 11:30AM Student agitation for 100 pc promotion: Tripura govt asked TBSE to review results
Agartala, Aug 5 (UNI) With the spread of students agitation across the state seeking 100 per cent promotion in board exams of Madhyamik and higher secondary this year under Tripura Board of Secondary Education (TBSE) for last four days, Tripura government has finally directed the board authority to go for reviewing the results to cease tension.
Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath said that the results were declared based on the performance of students in the previous class exam and the assessment report for each of the students has come from their respective schools. After a spike of Covid cases in the past few months, the Tripura government had constituted an expert committee with specialists from all professions including health officials and academic researchers who devised the mechanism for the assessment of students without holding exams.
Based on the score of the students in the last test conducted by the respective schools and a few more student-friendly criteria, the assessment report came to TBSE. The board only tabulated the marks in their standard format and published the results and if there is any factual error or typographical mistakes, it would be immediately corrected by TBSE, Nath stated.
“If a board candidate had failed in a previous exam but school authority had promoted him or her to board exam that is completely a matter of school authority but when they sent the score of the students, it was not related to their promotion in next class or allowed to sit the board exam. However, we have asked the board to review the results of the students, especially those who failed but cannot direct them to make everyone pass,” Nath said.
He, however, pointed out that about 91 per cent students have passed higher secondary and the figure is 81 per cent in Madhyamik, which is much better than previous years and added, “Moreover, we have kept the provision of writing exam if any student is not satisfied with the result. There are scopes to score better or get passed but demonstrating on the street cannot be a solution.”
Meanwhile, the student organisations of opposition Congress NSUI, CPI-M’s SFI and Trinamool Congress’s Chhatra Parishad protested the police action on children below 18 yrs of age who have come on the street seeking promotion in board exams. Resorting to lathi charge on the agitating students would not be tolerated and the government should take action against the erring policemen, the student bodies demanded.
They held protests separately in different parts of the state to press for their demand and argued since there was no exam this time due to Covid and academic activities were disrupted for the last one and half years, all the students needed to be allowed for the next level of study because every student has feeling, they would pass if appeared the exam.
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