Last year, a total of 19,143 children had applied for high school and intermediate. Concept Photo
Jagran correspondent, Haldwani. Private schools are providing education facilities with modern resources. Activities are also being conducted as per the demand of time in the schools affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education. In such a situation, the inclination of parents has increased towards private schools.
Teaching children in private institutions has also become a trend. Due to which the numbers in government and private schools affiliated to the state board are decreasing. Talking about Nainital district, this time the number of candidates in high school and intermediate has decreased by five percent compared to last year.
Education Department figures confirm this. According to the status of applications, 17887 students were registered in the Uttarakhand School Education Council examinations in 2024. There was an increase in 2025 and the number increased to 19,143. But this time the number of candidates has decreased by about five percent as compared to last year. The number has dropped to 18,234. A total of 9573 children will participate in this high school.
In this, 4459 boys and 5114 girls will appear for the exam. The number of institutional students in class 10th is 9386. Whereas, 187 will take the individual exam. At the same time, 8661 students will appear at the intermediate level. There are 3777 boys and 4884 girls. Of these, 8345 are institutional and 316 individual students. Here, looking at the situation of admissions in schools affiliated to the State Board, the officials of the Education Department are predicting that the situation is likely to worsen in the coming years.
1300 government schools, but 60 percent children in private
1825 government and private schools are running in Nainital district. Of these, 1300 are government and 525 are private institutions. Despite the large number of government and aided schools, most of the children are studying in private schools. According to the records of the Education Department, 40 percent of the more than one lakh students studying in the district are in government schools. Whereas, 60 percent are studying in private.
Teachers from other schools will do duty at the examination centers
Uttarakhand Board examinations are to start from the third week of February. For this, the education department is busy in preparations at the local level. Chief Education Officer GR Jaiswal has issued instructions in view of the examinations. According to the letter, the Principal of the concerned school will be given the responsibility of center administrator at all the examination centres. The examination in-charge will also be from the same school. But room inspectors and internal mobile team teachers will be appointed from other schools. Besides, instructions have been given to deploy two watchmen for the security of question papers.
There has been a decline in the number of children appearing for high school and intermediate examinations from the state board. It is also being seen that the number of students studying in private schools is more. This is the main reason for the decrease in the number of children registered in the board exams. - GR Jaiswal, Chief Education Officer
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