22% failed class 9th students in Delhi shifted to NIOS in last five years
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New Delhi: The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) has become an alternative opening for students who have failed Class 9, according to report by Indian Express citing a data from Delhi government schools.
The Minister of State Jayant Chaudhary informed that approximately 22.22 per cent of the total failed students turned to the NIOS system over the past five academic years.
It is reported that the percentage comes from the 71,124 students admitted to NIOS ‘compared to the 3,20,150 students who failed Class 9 during the years in question’.
Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal previously asked the Ministry of Education whether it was aware that the Delhi Government forced a large number of Class 9 failed students in Delhi into NIOS over the last ten years, resulting in high dropout rates in school.
The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) aims, among others, at preventing students from government schools dropping out after repeated academic failures.
The Minister in the Rajya Sabha that in order to support such students’ continuance in education, NIOS enables them to rejoin their parent institution after successfully completing Class 10 through NIOS.
The Delhi Directorate of Education (DoE) responded to a Right to Information (RTI) application filed by PTI that under the ‘NIOS Project,’ an average of 70 per cent of students who appeared for class 10 examination failed in the last four years.