Ludhiana sees 72.67% pass percentage in PSEB class X exams

R S Model School gets 18 merit positions in state

R S Model School principal Mohan Lal Kalra with the PSEB class X toppers in Ludhiana on Monday. Gurmeet Singh

R S Model School principal Mohan Lal Kalra with the PSEB class X toppers in Ludhiana on Monday. (Express photo by Gurmeet Singh)

As many as 33,483 students from Ludhiana district passed class X examination as per results declared by the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) on Monday.

While this year too Ludhiana topped the state with 64 merit ranks, the number was actually reduced to half. Last year, 126 students from the district had got merit ranks.

The district saw a passing percentage of 72.67% and a total of 46,074 students appeared for exams.

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Sangrur district, which got 43 merit ranks, follows Ludhiana while one merit rank was registered from Kapurthala district.

It was a red letter day for the students and staff of R S Model Senior Secondary School, Shastri Nagar, which has not produced a class X topper in the last 40 years.

However, this year, the school not only got the maximum merit positions — 18 — and topped the state, the first three rank-holders in Punjab were also from R S Model School.

Talking to Newsline, principal M L Kalra said, “For 40 years, I have been heading the school. We produced class XII toppers and got merit ranks in class X also but this day was yet to come. Today after 40 long years, school has finally achieved the goal. Now, whenever I retire, it will be with inner peace and satisfaction.”

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Nankana Sahib Model High School, Janta Nagar, got 11 merit ranks in the state.

Divya Goyal

Divya Goyal is a Principal Correspondent with The Indian Express, based in Punjab. Her interest lies in exploring both news and feature stories, with an effort to reflect human interest at the heart of each piece. She writes on gender issues, education, politics, Sikh diaspora, heritage, the Partition among other subjects. She has also extensively covered issues of minority communities in Pakistan and Afghanistan. She also explores the legacy of India's partition and distinct stories from both West and East Punjab. She is a gold medalist from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Delhi, the most revered government institute for media studies in India, from where she pursued English Journalism (Print). Her research work on “Role of micro-blogging platform Twitter in content generation in newspapers” had won accolades at IIMC. She had started her career in print journalism with Hindustan Times before switching to The Indian Express in 2012. Her investigative report in 2019 on gender disparity while treating women drug addicts in Punjab won her the Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitivity in 2020. She won another Laadli for her ground report on the struggle of two girls who ride a boat to reach their school in the border village of Punjab. ... Read More

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