Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia lauded the efforts introduced by the Delhi Government, saying the Government run schools have recorded a pass percentage of 94.24 per cent in CBSE Class XII exam results. The overall pass percentage across the country was 83.4 per cent, while the overall pass percentage of Delhi schools was 91.87 per cent.
The top three positions in the Delhi Government schools were secured by four students — three of them girls. Sana from Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya-2, Jama Masjid, was the topper and scored 97.6 per cent. Gyan Kaur with 97 per cent was the second topper. She is from SKV, Ramesh Nagar.
The third position was shared by two students. Nikita Dhaiya from Rajkiya Pratibha Vikas Vidyalaya, Dwarka, came third with 96.6 per cent, while Naman Gupta from Government co-ed school, Najafgarh, also got the third position by scoring same percentage of marks.
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia Friday spoke to all toppers of Delhi government schools and congratulated them on their success. “Passing percentage of Delhi has risen this year despite an increase in the number of candidates due to the massive transformation and improvement in the government schools,” he said. As per the data shared by the Delhi Government, Around 203 schools have secure He secured 100 per cent pass percentage and about 732 schools have secured more than 90 per cent pass percentage this year.
“After crossing over to more than 90 per cent pass percentage for the first time last year, the Delhi Government schools further improved its performance by 3.6 per cent this year. As per the results of 2019, the total pass percentage in schools run by Delhi Government is 94.24 per cent in which pass percentage of girl students is 96.30 per cent this year which has increased from 94.1 per cent last year while that of boys is 91.48 per cent which has shown a big jump from 85.98 per cent of last year,” he said.
Highlighting the efforts of the government, he said that the government sent 209 heads of schools on educational trip to Cambridge or Finland, almost all of heads also along with officials attended leadership training at IIMs, he said, adding that such orientation enabled them to take ownership and leadership in their own domains.
A total of 1,29,917 students from Delhi government schools appeared for the CBSE class 12 examination this year. They form a majority of the 2,39,864 candidates from Delhi who appeared in the examination. The results for the Class 12 examination were declared by the CBSE on Thursday.