The new online admission policy of the State Education Department for primary level in Delhi Government schools has brought down the dropout rate from 15 per cent to 5 per cent this year. This has lead to 70,000 new admissions, of which 35,000 are girl students who never made to school beyond the fifth standard.
There is another bit of good news in the education sector with the Government claiming that results of the senior secondary level examinations have improved by more than 25 per cent, a record figure for the past decade.
Mr. Lovely,Education Minister, said use of the online admission system introduced this year had led to a major improvement in the admission scenario in Government and aided schools.Earlier students and their parents had to face problems for school admissions because they did not know the actual availability of seats and the location of schools after passing out from fifth standard from the MCD schools.
However, introduction of the online admission system changed it and instead of the routine 1.40-lakh students joining the sixth standard in Delhi Government schools, the total admission had touched the record figure of 2.10 lakh.
The most outstanding feature of this achievement is that nearly 35,000 of these new 70,000 students are girls thereby reversing the sharp increase in the trend of dropout rate among girls during the past one decade. Mr. Lovely said the dropout rate had been brought down to 5 per cent and efforts were directed at reaching the zero tolerance level by next year.
The Minister said the results of senior secondary examination had improved by more than 26 per cent with the annual result going up from 48.03 per cent to 74.31 per cent in main the examinations after compartments.
The pass-out rate in compartments has been the highest since 1997-98. Similarly, the results of XIIth standard had also gone up from 76 per cent to 87 per cent in the main examinations, registering an improvement of 11 per cent.
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