20% ghost students detected
ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS GUNOTSAV THIRD PHASE
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Whether it is under Social Welfare, Food & Civil Supplies and many other departments, Assam seems to be bedeviled by large number of ghost beneficiaries. Now, Gunotsav — the much-hyped exercise to assess and evaluate schools that began last year — has brought into focus the existence of large scale enrollment of “ghost” students in elementary schools (from Class I to VIII).
State Education Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma while addressing a press conference at Janata Bhawan here on Tuesday afternoon said one of the major benefits of Gunotsav was detection of ghost students in many elementary schools whose names were enrolled only in papers and they never attended classes. During Gunotsav the officials of Education department and other officers, ministers and MLAs while visiting thousands of schools detected these ghost students, he said.
“At the end of the third phase of Gunotsav we have detected 20 per cent of the total students in elementary schools as ghost students. As per enrollment records, there are 41 lakh students in elementary schools in the State. But Gunotsav has found only 37 lakhs genuine students,” Sarma said.
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