This year, 1,20,881 out of 9.69 lakh candidates who appeared in the exam failed, showing a sharp increase in the number of unsuccessful students.
Headmasters of various government-run and government-aided schools, under the banner of the Advanced Society for Headmasters and Headmistresses (ASFHM), have expressed deep concern over the exclusion of qualified non-teaching staff in the education sector.
A hunger strike by a section of the job losers, including teaching and non-teaching staff, in state-run schools in West Bengal is underway in front of the West Bengal School Service Commission's office at Salt Lake in Kolkata.
The untainted, deserving teachers who lost their jobs following the Supreme Court verdict held a protest rally today.
Hundreds of teachers and non-teaching staff from state-aided secondary and higher secondary schools, who recently lost their jobs following a Supreme Court verdict that found irregularities in the appointment process, staged protests across North Bengal on Wednesday demanding justice and reinstatement.
Answering a question asked by a member during the budget session of Haryana Assembly on Monday, Haryana education minister Kanwar Pal said tablets will be provided to the students by May 2022.
Senior officers and public representatives will be present at each school. Program will involve career counseling, motivational talks, and felicitations of rank holders in 10th and 12th class and meeting of parents, officers of education department to discuss present status of schools.
All government, private and Army schools reopened in Kashmir this morning. Arrangements were made by the school managements for social distancing and temperature testing of students. Students queued at the gate for screening body temperature that is a standard operating procedure.
The Commissioner of Police appreciated the initiatives taken by Delhi Traffic Police in sensitizing road users especially school students by conducting road safety awareness sessions and competitions and also the schools for their cooperation in the efforts of Delhi Traffic Police.
In view of the current pandemic situation, the government has issued a fresh set of relaxations this evening. From Wednesday onwards, night restriction has been relaxed by an hour and movement of people and vehicles has been prohibited from 12 to 5 am instead of 11 pm to 5 am.
