The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought an action taken report (ATR) from the Higher Education Secretary over the failure of the department resulted in Nil result of junior science college at Jeerango in Gajapati district since the inception of the college.
The apex human rights body passed the order following a petition filed in this regard by Supreme Court lawyer and rights activist Radhakanta Tripathy.
“This is an unfortunate case of a college where no student has been passed since its inception. The State Government-run junior science college at Jeerango in Gajapati district retained its dubious distinction with the nil result in Plus II (science) examination till date,” the petitioner has stated.
As many as 20 out of 27 students took the examination last year. No student of the college has passed in last five years since its first batch sat the examination in 2009.
The college was established in 2007 with Central Government funds to facilitate education of mostly Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Scheduled Caste (SC) children. Altogether 14 students had taken the exam in 2009 (first batch).
While five students had appeared in the subsequent year, four and six students took the exam in 2011 and 2012, respectively, the petitioner pointed out. There are no teachers to teach Chemistry, Physics, Zoology and English.
Though there are several rooms in the college, but it is going without a laboratory, power and telephone. The failure of education department in ensuring proper education to these SC/ST students result in the failure of these unfortunate students who have to face dark future for the inaction of the State, Radhakanta alleged.