The Delhi Government-run schools have not only improved on their previous performances of Class XII CBSE examination, but have also left far behind other State Governments-run schools in India. The number of Government schools with 100 per cent result has gone up from 78 to 109 schools.
Addressing a Press conference on Monday, Education Minister Kiran Walia said that the performance of Government-run schools in Delhi is the best in CBSE Class XII examination in the country among all Government-run schools.
There are 109 Government-run schools in Delhi in 2013 which have achieved 100 per cent results against 78 schools in 2012. Similarly, 522 governments run schools has achieved 90 percent while last year only 352 schools had achieved this results.
A total of 1,39,003 students have appeared in the Class XII examination, of these 1,23,222 passed. The total pass percentage is 88.65 percent in 2013 while it was 87.72 per cent in 2012. The improvement of results in Delhi region is 1.38 per cent.
"The past percentage has recorded one per cent improvement over last year. last year the percentage was 87.72 per cent, which has gone up to 88.65 per cent this year. Delhi is at the top with 88.65 per cent followed by Panchkula 85.32 per cent and Chennai at 64.68 per cent," said Walia while congratulating over better past percentage to the girls stated that they have once again outshined boys in Delhi region.