Edn. Min. on the performance of HSS Exam:
Result of the Higher Secondary School examination conducted by the Council of Higher Secondary Education, Manipur (COHSEM) for the year 2015 was declared yesterday. The pass percentage is 61.11 and our education Minister M. Okendro said that he is happy with the result. The percentage was dropped this year when compare with the last four year. As according to records from the COHSEM 76.89% passed in 2014, 81.44% passed in 2013, 82.86% in 2012 and 75.67% in 2011. The education Minister said that he was happy because his department has successfully reduced the use of unfair means in the examination conducted by the COHSEM. Does that meant that almost all students who had passed the Higher Secondary School during the last four year were because the COHSEM staffs could not control the use of unfair means among the students? It is a fact that the much talk about the use of unfair means by the students while trying to get through examination is not wrong. Common people know it. And the many a times there were several criticism from many sections of the general public. But when a person responsible for the education sector himself told this it certainly proves that he is incapable of holding the responsible post. There is no reason to defend himself and his department after letting everyone knows about the reality from his mouth. The Education Minister’s statement regarding the performances of the students of Higher Secondary schools seem to be a desperate attempt to find a way out from the criticisms to the present education system of the state. Only a fool would applause to such a statement which cherished the drop in the pass percentage of students. There is no reason to be happy when the pass percentage of the student decreases.
The result declared yesterday also shows that the number of students appeared from private run school have done much better than from those of the government run higher secondary schools. This is not the first time that the private run schools are showing its credentials better than those of the government run schools but the last few decades showed excel of the private schools. There has not been a single year during the last few decades at which government schools showed its superiority than the private schools. It was always students from the private school like the Little flower, Nirmalabas or the St. Joseph school or Don Bosco School which top the High School Leaving Certificate examination in almost all the HSLC examination. For the Higher Secondary Examination the government run schools were considered better some years back but with the emergence of some few higher secondary schools like HRD, Millennium, Maram Don Bosco etc. it too is lagging far behind. With the result which showed that private schools are doing better than the govt. school it definitely showed that there is something seriously wrong with the government education policy. When the hon’ble Minister said that the pass percentage is decrease because the authority of the COHSEM prevented them from using unfair means in the examination doe he meant to say that those students passed before this examination get through by using unfair means. People would have appreciated the education minister if he accepted that his government is not taking up any effective measures to ensure quality education in all the government run educational institutions in the state. This time too the real scenerio is once more revealed.
