Show-cause notices issued to schools over dropout cases

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, February 17

Pulling up its socks to ensure higher enrolment in government schools and focus especially on the admission of female students, dropout and out of schools children, the Director-General of School Education has begun bringing the schools to book over dropout cases.

Following the directions issued by the DGSE, the District Education Department has issued showcause notices to the heads of ten government schools located in the district and has directed the schools heads to submit a reply to the notice with the department by February 16.

Taking cognizance of the enrolment data collected from all the schools, the department prepared a list of the schools which registered lower enrolment in some classes as compared to the last academic session. The scrutiny of the data focused on the premise that in case in a school 70 students were studying in a class in an academic session, at least 70 or more students should have been admitted to the next class the next academic session.

In Bathinda district, Government Senior Secondary School (Girls), Mall Road, tops the list of dropout cases registered at 111, followed by 110 cases at Government Senior Secondary School, Ghumman Kalan, 108 cases at Government Senior Secondary School, Bhucho Kalan, 106 at Government Senior Secondary School, Kalyan Sukha, 98 at Government Senior Secondary School, Sheikhpura, 97 at Government Senior Secondary School, Gobindpura, 96 each at Government Senior Secondary School, Rampura village, and Government Senior Secondary School, Bangi Kalan, 95 at Government Senior Secondary School, Kot Shamir, and 88 cases at Government Senior Secondary School (Boys), Patti Kalan Mehraj.

As per the class-wise data collected for the schools in the district, maximum number of dropout cases was registered at Government Senior Secondary School (Girls), Mall Road, in the 11th to 12th class promotion followed by 78 cases in the same category at Government Senior Secondary School, Bhucho Kalan. As many as 64 such cases were registered in the 10-11th category at Government Senior Secondary School, Ghumman Kalan.

It is pertinent to mention here that the state Education Department is undertaking a mashal march campaign in all the districts of the state to spread awareness about enrolling children in schools and also to track down out of school or dropout children and bring them to the schools.