Minister directs officers to take effective initiatives to ensure improvement in SSLC and PU results
Dr. Patil chaired a district quarterly Karnataka Development Programme meeting held at Raichur on Friday.
'The SSLC and II PU are the prime educational stages for students to pursue their future education. If you could see the result, it was very shocking, and poor performance in each year's examination is a stigma to the district's educational growth,' he said and added that the Deputy Commissioner and CEO should frame initiatives that are strictly implemented to improve the results.
He suggested to appoint district-level officers for each village and taluk-level officers for each school and to ask them to work effectively to ensure improvement in the results from this year itself. 'Normally, the SSLC and PU students may find difficulties under fear in attending exams. The special classes and short tests should be conducted to eradicate such examination fear among them, as the Education Department should immediately start work on it,' the Minister said.
The Minister turned down the opinion that a shortage of teaching staff is a prime cause for poor performances. He said that the performance has become poor because of the Education Department's failure in monitoring the method of teaching and quality of the education provided.
Highlighting the importance of green coverage and expressing concern about raising pollution, Dr. Patil directed the forest and other concerned departments to plant at least 10,000 trees in the city limits every year to maintain the good and pro-human environment.
MLA Basanagouda Daddal demanded a taluk hospital for rural area people. Both MLC's Basanagouda Badarli and Sharanagouda Patil Bayyapur urged the appointment of teachers exclusively for the computer sources in various schools in Sindhanur taluk and also the establishment of a 50-bed critical care centre in Lingsagur.
Basanagouda Turviha and Karemma G. Nayak, MLA's, A. Vasanth Kumar, MLA's, Nitish K., Deputy Commissioner, Eshwar Kumar Kandu, CEO, G. Puttamadaiah, Superintendent of Police, Jubin Mohapatra, City Corporation Commissioner, Shivanand, Shafiulla Khan Maheboob and Rudragouda Mahantagouda, Additional Deputy Commissioners, and officers were present.
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