Schools in Mumbai which have recorded low success rate in the 2018 board exams will be under the scanner of the government soon. For this purpose, State education minister Vinod Tawde has also called for the special meeting with the teachers and principals of the schools where less than 30 percent of the students have managed to pass the board exams.
Tawde told The Sunday Express: “We are trying to understand where the gaps are. Sometimes, there arenʼt enough teachers, sometimes there isnʼt a proper infrastructure. Once we identify these gaps, we will try to plug them.”
He added: “We will provide assistance to these schools to help them improve their performance.” Additional resources will be provided to these schools such as teachers, infrastructures and mentoring so that they can improve their success rate from next year onward.
In Mumbai division, there are 25 schools which have 30 percent as their pass percentage in class X 2018 board exams. And then there are five schools in which the pass percentage is zero percent.
Schools with poor performance are high in number in the Aurangabad Division, where 29 schools have pass percentage below 30 percent and nine schools have zero percent pass rate.
It is not the first time that the government will extend support to such schools to help them improve their success rate. Last year, the government identified such schools in the Pune division, which were then provided with special assistance to help them improve their results.
“We had trained the teachers of these schools, helped them with additional study material. It has worked, as the number of schools with below 30 percent results has dropped drastically,” said Tawde.