CBSE Class 10 results 2023: Chandigarh fares better with 93.84% pass percentage; Panchkula records 92.33%

Chandigarh region includes the state of Punjab and Union Territories of Chandigarh, Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh; while Panchkula includes the states of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh

Jubilant students after CBSE class 10th results at BCM Arya Senior Sec School in Ludhiana. Express Photos by Gurmeet Singh

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The Chandigarh region Friday recorded an overall pass percentage of 93.84 in the Class 10 examinations conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) for 2022-23. The CBSE announced the results of the Class 10 board exam on Friday.

Read | CBSE Class 10 Result 2023: Overall pass percentage at 93.12%

CBSE’s Chandigarh region that includes the state of Punjab and Union Territories (UTs) of Chandigarh, Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, has recorded a pass percentage, higher than the national average of 93.12 per cent.

However, the pass percentage in the region has dipped from last year’s 96.33 per cent.

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For the Panchkula region, which includes the states of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, the pass percentage stood at 92.33 per cent, lower than the national average. The region also recorded a lower pass percentage from the last year’s 95.38 per cent.

Though both regions have witnessed a lower pass percentage than last year, Chandigarh performed better than Panchkula this year.

Nationally, the overall pass percentage for Class 10 this year also dipped from last year’s 94.40 per cent.

CBSE also announced the result for Class 12 today morning.

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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