#Gurgaon: Only 1 of 40 students clear class 10, villagers lock up Mewat school

Irked over extremely low pass percentage of students in the exams conducted by the Haryana Board of School Education (HBSE), the residents of Rwali village in Mewat district locked a government school on Wednesday. Only one out of 40 students of Class 10 in the school cleared the exams. Two got supplementary while the rest failed.

Around 7am, the parents and student locked the main school gate and did not allow the teachers to enter. They demanded transfer orders of the current teachers and hiring of dynamic teachers, who can take interest in the academics of the children.

Two teachers, Dharam Singh and Mohammad Ilyas, were immediately transferred on Wednesday after the villagers refused to unlock the gate. The block education officer and the station house officer of Ferozpur Jhirka reached the spot and took six hours to convince the parents to open the lock.

The school staff is shocked and said they had taken extra classes throughout the year and were sure of 100% result. They are unaware what went wrong. “Our teachers have worked very hard throughout the year. We are shocked that the students who did so well and were the toppers of class have failed,” Sadhna Sharma, headmistress of the school said.

The village, which is around 90 kilometers from Gurgaon, has made history. In 2016, only one student had passed and in year 2015 merely two students cleared the exams.