The Chief Minister of Punjab, Captain Amrinder Singh has announced a cash prize of ₹ 5,100 for the meritorious students who have scored 98% or more in this year's examination. The announcement was made during his weekly live session #AskCaptain on Facebook.
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"The consistent, concerted and dedicated efforts of the education department, especially the teachers, for sprucing up the infrastructure facilities and bringing in qualitative improvement in teaching-learning has started fructifying. The pass percentage of government schools this year is 94.32%, and has outshined the private schools consecutively for the second year, thus bringing in a change in public perception", said CM while answering Sukhjinder Singh, a Nawanshahr resident.
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It should also be mentioned that government schools have outshone private schools. About 1,204 out of the 1,903 government schools in the state have achieved cent per cent result, whereas, only 528 private schools out of the total 1718 could achieve 100% result. As many as 155 students scored 98% or above in the PSEB Class XII examination this year.
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"The commendation from the Chief Minister would further give a fillip to the teachers to realise their real worth as nation builders. They would have the contentment of serving less privileged section of the society, which has been looking towards government schools to fulfil the hope and aspirations of providing quality education facility to their children", said Krishan Kumar, the Education Secretary
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This year, as many as 8 lakh students appeared for the RBSE Class 10 examination. The RBSE had to postpone some of the Class 10 exams due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The state board, however, was successfully able to conduct the remaining papers on June 29 and 30. The pending papers comprised of the subjects Information Technology, Electronics, Hardware, and Mathematics.
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