Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, Jan 28: Now SSLC classes are being held to the fullest and about 80 percent of students from Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts are attending these classes. Efforts are now on to further improve the attendance.

SSLC classes resumed after remaining closed for a long time due to coronavirus infection, on January 1. In the entire state, these two districts have been recording the highest attendance from the date classes were opened. The teachers said that the attendance has been improving gradually and hope to reach 100 percent shortly.

School development and monitoring committee and the teachers have jointly undertaken house visits of students towards improving the attendance, and also in order to gather information why the students are not attending classes.

Out of about 31,000 students in Dakshina Kannada, 24,500 are attending SSLC classes. Udupi district has 15,673 students out of whom 13,945 (84.66%) students attended classes on Wednesday. Deputy director of public instruction of Dakshina Kannada, Malleswamy, said that survey undertaken about absentee students has been completed in 183 out of 530 schools. The survey covers hostel problems, students from inside the district, and those from outside the district, he said. Udupi district deputy director of public instruction, N H Nagur, feels that hostels remaining closed and non-return of the children of migrant workers could be the major reason. He hoped that the percentage will soon touch 100 percent.