While analysing the daily attendance data that is provided by the District Education officers (DEOs), it came to notice that around 70 per cent of students are only attending the classes, School and Mass Education Department secretary BP Sethi said in a letter to the districts.
Only 70% of students returned to school post-pandemic, Odisha govt report reveals
Around 30 per cent of students in Odisha have not returned to school after physical classes were resumed post-pandemic. The Odisha government has directed the district collectors to look into the matter and bring back the students.
While analysing the daily attendance data that is provided by the District Education officers (DEOs), it came to notice that around 70 per cent of students are only attending the classes, School and Mass Education Department secretary BP Sethi said in a letter to the districts.
He said that the analysis also showcases that the attendance in classes 1 to 5 in the districts such as Malkanagiri, Boudh, Gajapati, Sambalpur and Nuapada was less than the state average.
The situation is also poor in the districts Malkanagiri, Boudh, Sambalpur and Nuapada in classes 6 to 8, he added. "In the secondary section, attendance in schools in Gajapati, Bolangir, Bargarh, Sonepur, Nuapada, Cuttack, Khordha, Koraput, Ganjam, Boudh, Malkangiri, Keonjhar, Sambalpur is less than the state average," he further said, as reported by NDTV.
In higher secondary classes, the overall attendance has been found abysmally low in Gajapati, Sonepur, Baragarh, Kandhamal and Nuapada, which is a matter of concern, he mentioned.
"The above figures lead us to believe that thorough analysis has to be made to know the whereabouts of the absentee students. It may so happen, these students who are not attending the offline classes might have dropped out/ moved out along with their parents/ lost interest in academic activities due to non-continuance of the teaching schedule due to the pandemic situation and many other reasons, which need analysis," he noted.
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