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  • Over 1,500 Odisha college students stranded in Ukraine amid Russian invasion

    Express News Service

    BHUBANESWAR: Stuck within the struggle zones of Ukraine and spending the hours in rising concern and anxiousness, greater than 1,500 college students from Odisha are frantically ready to be evacuated to the protection of their homeland.

    As the state of affairs escalated and turned grim, a majority of scholars from the State, who’re positioned within the schooling hubs of Kharkiv and Kyiv, had been working out of meals and water. With disruption in banking, web and communication techniques, they had been struggling to search out meals, draw money and communicate with their mother and father. However, on Thursday night, many had been shifted to bomb shelters and secure zones following the third advisory by the Indian Embassy.

    Most of the scholars are pursuing MBBS course in National Medical University at Kharkiv and Kyiv Medical University and keep in residences. Liza Kap of Bhubaneswar, Pankaj Kumar Mohanta of Mayurbhanj and Prasanjeet Pattnaik of Sambalpur, all fifth 12 months college students of Kharkiv National Medical University, mentioned they heard bomb warnings and sirens thrice within the day and Indian Embassy suggested them to shift to the closest bomb shelter. 

    “We have shifted to the Geroiv Truda metro at Heroiv Prasti but it is chock-a-block with people. We brought whatever food we had in our apartment but drinking water is scarce,” mentioned Liza.  The college students wakened at 4.30 am on the day to distant but loud explosions. Panicking, Liza and her pals packed their luggage and shifted to the bottom ground for security. The blasts continued at intervals for a while, and later within the day, the college administration and Indian Embassy issued advisories asking college students to inventory necessities and keep put of their residences.

    “We spent almost four hours this morning trying to enter a supermarket and buy groceries. At the billing counter, it was another two hours of wait. There is a mad rush everywhere and even the bank and water ATMs are extremely crowded,” mentioned Pankaj. Since WiFi has been snapped at a number of areas, most of them are utilizing cell information for restricted hours to contact their households in Odisha and obtain advisories. 

    Stranded Odisha college students plead for evacuation

    Most of the Odisha college students had been to return again to India within the first week of March. However, with airspaces closed in Ukraine in wake of the Russian invasion, all of the flights had been cancelled. “Three days again, the Indian authorities requested all Indians to fly out of Ukraine. But, the flight tickets had been promoting at astronomical charges, nearly double the conventional costs of Rs 27,000 to Rs 30,000.

    Even although we tried to e-book tickets, they had been out there solely from March 3,” mentioned Akankshya Satapathy, one other Odia scholar who stays alone in Studentska close to Kharkiv Metro. The college students had gone to Ukraine by an company Global Focus Education Pvt Ltd in Bhubaneswar. Its founders Abdul Zaheer and Swadhin Mohapatra mentioned there are round 1,600 college students from Odisha finding out medical, nursing and engineering.

    “In the last six years, 1,300 students have gone to Ukraine through our agency to study medicine. Until yesterday, 50 had returned. The situation turned worse today but we are in constant touch with the Indian Embassy to ensure the safety of our students,” mentioned Swadhin who’s in Ukraine at current. Back house, mother and father of those college students are fearful about their security.

    They have urged each the State and the Central governments to make sure their evacuation on the earliest. Labour Commissioner N Thirumala Nayak mentioned that the State authorities is maintaining observe of the state of affairs. The State authorities is fixed contact with the Ministry of External Affairs on the difficulty of evacuating the scholars and residents, she acknowledged.

  • No stress, all smiles on end result day as 96.73% cross HSC examinations

    By Express News Service
    CUTTACK:  Blessed with the cancellation of annual High School Certificate (HSC) examinations because of the Covid-19 pandemic, a whopping 96.73 per cent (laptop) college students made the grades this yr. The cross share made a quantum leap of almost 18 laptop over 78.76 laptop final yr.

    Announcing the outcomes, School and Mass Education Minister Samir Ranjan Dash stated 97.89 laptop college students within the common stream handed the examination this yr in opposition to 79.71 laptop in 2020. The cross share of ex-regular college students was 88.33 laptop in opposition to 57 laptop final yr. 

    As many as 6,29, 919 candidates from all streams of normal, ex-regular, correspondence common and correspondent ex-regular had crammed up types for the examination of whom 6,09,299 handed. Of them 2,656 achieved A1 grade securing greater than 90 per cent marks in opposition to 1,279 in 2020.

    Around 22,123 college students obtained A2 grade (80 to 89 laptop),  52,301 secured B1 grade (70 to 79 per cent), 94,498 acquired B2 grade (60 to 69 per cent), 1,37,047 acquired C grade (50 to 59 per cent), 1,51,877 D grade (40 to 49 per cent) and 1,48,720E grade (30 to 39 per cent). As many as 5,945 excessive colleges achieved 100 per cent end result this yr. Jagatsinghpur posted highest 99.09 laptop cross fee whereas Balangir the bottom at 94.87 laptop.

     The BSE additionally declared the outcomes of State Open School Certificate and Madhyama examinations on the day. All classes of scholars have the choice of showing offline enchancment examination and its end result could be thought of as the ultimate and binding on a part of the candidate.  

    “The form fill up process for the ‘improvement examination’ will commence from July 5 and the results declared by August,” stated Dash, including the portal of the Council of Higher Secondary Education would stay open for consideration and addition of marks.

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    97.89%  college students in common stream handed the examination

    88.33% ex-regular college students handed in opposition to 57 per cent final yr

    2,656  college students scored A1 grade

    99.09%  cross fee posted by Jagatsinghpur district

  • Odisha authorities mulls selling Class I-VIII college students

    By Express News Service
    BHUBANESWAR :  As the Covid-19 pandemic has ruined a complete educational yr, the State authorities is planning to advertise college students of elementary faculties with out holding examinations for 2020-21 session.A notification on this regard might come quickly owing to uncertainty over bodily mode lessons for college students of Class I to IX within the State. 

    Even as faculties have reopened from January 8, lessons have been restricted to Class X and XII college students who’re scheduled to look their Board exams this yr. The choice on reopening faculties for college students of Class I to IX has not been finalised but, although it’s anticipated to be introduced quickly after evaluate of the scenario. 

    Sources in School and Mass Education division mentioned in such a scenario, it is extremely troublesome to finish the syllabus and conduct the examinations on time. A call could also be taken for promotion of all the scholars at elementary stage, from Class I to VIII, to their subsequent class with out holding exams, they conceded.

    The authorities has reopened faculties partially just for Class X and XII college students to allow classroom educating for no less than 100 days earlier than their exams. After outbreak of the pandemic in March final yr, the federal government had scrapped exams for college students of Class I to VIII for the 2019-20 educational session and had promoted all of them to the subsequent class.

    Promotion of Class IX college students to X, nonetheless, was made on the school-level on the premise of their inside educational performances. It is, nonetheless, nonetheless unsure on whether or not the federal government would observe the same path for the Class IX college students this educational session or will go for the take a look at after completion of the HSC exams.