Board makes printed result gazette available

Tribune News Service
Srinagar, January 9

It was after nearly a decade that the students in Kashmir had to look for printed gazette of results of Class X exams that were declared on Thursday by the Jammu and Kashmir Board of school Education (JKBOSE) due to Internet ban.

Nearly 75 per cent students have qualified the exams that were held amid turmoil in October, three months after the government had abrogated Article 370.

The results were declared on January 9 evening, nearly 45 day after the exams were conducted. This time it has been difficult for the students to know their results as the Internet in the region continues to be blocked.

“It was very frustrating to wait for the news of your result and you are not even sure how to know it without Internet,” said Suhaib Ahmad, 16, from Narbal village in Pulwama, who was able to know his results after he called his cousin, who studies in Chandigarh and checked it online.

The exams were held in 615 centres across Kashmir in which 65,393 students — 33,981 boys and 31,412 girls — appeared. In total, 42,074 students have qualified the exams, officials said.

Every year, the results are declared online, but this year the BOSE kept the printed result gazette copies available at its district offices for the students.

This year the board officials said 1,659 students have secured grade A in the exams. Chairman, BOSE, Veena Pandita said they were satisfied over the time-bound declaration of results, despite many challenges. She said the pass percentage of students is 74.77.

The pass percentage in the government schools is 63, while in the private schools 86 per cent students have qualified the exams.

When being asked about the declaration of results amid continuous Internet ban, she said the BOSE had made adequate arrangements for the proper dissemination of results through the media.