Showcause notices to schools over dropout cases

BATHINDA: 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.

Nikhila Pant Dhawan

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, February 16

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 enrollment data collected from all the schools, the department prepared a list of the schools which registered lower enrollment in some classes as compared to 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.