Telangana sparkles in Inter show-7% Jump In Pass Across T Districts; Did Govt Order Liberal Valuation To Prove A Point

(sourcee-toi)It was Jai Telangana at the Intermediate results on Friday with districts in the T region reporting an impressive rise in their pass percentages. While there was an overall rise in the pass percentage across the state from 60.15 last year to 64.69 this year, the jump seen in some of T districts was much higher.
From securing a 55.3 pass percentage last year, T- region reported 62.7 pass percentage this year. While pass percentage improved in all T districts, Adilabad, Mahbubnagar and Nalgonda recorded best scores. If Adilabads 2009 pass percentage was 44, it touched 67 this year. Mahbubnagars pass % shot from 43 in 2009 to 61 this year and Nalgondas pass from 51 last year to 60 this year. Significantly, it was the drastic rise in the pass percentages in government colleges that resulted in districts reporting better figures this year. Some government teachers said that the rise in pass percentages was due to the conscious effort of the state government to prove that none of the students from Telangana lost out if their papers were evaluated in other regions.The pass % of Andhra and Rayalaseema regions also improved but marginally by about 4 and 3 per cent respectively. The minister for secondary education, Manikya Varaprasad Rao,who released the results on Friday, claimed that the sharp increase in pass percentages was only an indication of the state governments success in giving quality education in rural areas, but sources from the department said that the valuation was pretty much on liberal grounds to bring out good results. There was a proposal to grant 5 per cent grace marks for students who fared poorly due to participation in various agitations. But since this proposal was turned down by the state government the valuation was made lenient, a source said.

A representative of the government teachers association further added that marking was possibly liberal because even before exams had commenced, many Telangana MLAs and Telangana JAC members had argued that answer scripts from the region may not be evaluated objectively in Andhra region. The state government might have wanted to prove this theory wrong, a representative of government teachers association said. Meanwhile, it was government colleges across the state that stole the thunder from the private ones by recording an impressive pass percentage this year. The overall pass percentages at government colleges increased by an unusual 12.59 per cent this year when compared to the previous years 61.48 per cent. Here again, it were the government colleges in the T region that gave the IPE results an unlikely twist. While in Adilabad the pass percentage at government colleges increased from 43.1 to a whopping 82.89, in Warangal the rise was from a meagre 38 per cent to 70.47 per cent. In Nizamabad the percentage increased from 61 per cent last year to 70.07 per cent and in Mahbubnagar the increase was from 41 per cent to 66.53 per cent.
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(source (Telugu()