The East Singhbhum district has improved its performance in the class 10 examinations that were declared by Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) on Tuesday. East Singhbhum district fared better percentage of 73.364 per cent this year as compared to the average 63.91 per cent in 2012.
While West Singhbhum has scored 65.105 per cent as compared to 58.62 per cent last year, Seraikela-Kharswan has registered a pass percentage of 66.070 per cent as compared to 63.91 per cent last year.
East Singhbhum DEO Ashok Kumar Sharma said he was happy with the results, but the coming year would see even better scores. However considering the available resources and infrastructure the result was
satisfactory. " The credit goes to the hard work of teachers. We focused on on teacher's training and students grooming this year keeping in mind the poor results for the last couple of years in the district. We conducted special classes for students and are happy with the results," said Sharma.
Sources informed that the original mark sheets are expected to reach the district education office by next week, which would be distributed thereafter in the respective schools.
The first position in the East Singhbhum district has been bagged by lipika Bera from Manasmudia High School in Baharagora and Salhay Mardi of St. Robert's High School, Parsudih, Jamshedpur both with 447 marks out of 500.
The internet cafes of the city were in a choc-a-bloc situation on Tuesday as curious students thronged the cyber houses to know the results of the Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) matriculation examination.
The use of new technology was also widespread as number of cell phone service providers made results available through short message service (SMS). long queues of the students were seen outside the cyber cafes from mid afternoon.
The day however, belonged to the Internet shop owners who registered brisk business. The students rejoiced themselves after getting the results. They expressed satisfaction over the outcome but some were seen little disappointed as they failed to obtain the marks according to expectations.
“I am happy to have achieved second division in the exam. I will work harder and would take up science in intermediate,” said Soma Das, a student of D M Madan , Bistupur.