Bihar Intermediate college students protest in Patna over discontinuation of plus 2 courses in schools

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Bihar Intermediate students protest in Patna over discontinuation of plus 2 classes in colleges

PATNA: Bihar Board Intermediate college students in Patna are protesting outdoors the JDU workplace, expressing their displeasure with the Bihar authorities’s choice to discontinue plus 2 courses in schools starting April 1, 2024. Sonam, a pupil who spoke to ANI, acknowledged that they’ve been instructed to finish their intermediate training in faculties reasonably than universities.
“We have now been instructed to proceed our Intermediate training in faculties and never College. We face loads of issues. Our one educational 12 months would go to waste,” a pupil stated on Thursday.
“They need to implement the brand new rule for these college students who wish to avail it now after taking their Class tenth exams. Why ought to it apply to us when now we have already taken admission?” she added.
One other pupil stated that since that they had already paid charges they’d lose some huge cash.
“It may possibly occur from subsequent session. We face loads of issues and now we have additionally paid charges,” stated one of many protesting college students.
Earlier in February, the Bihar authorities introduced the discontinuation of plus two (intermediate) courses in schools affiliated with numerous universities within the state.
In a notification issued on February 21, the Schooling division acknowledged that though such programs had been discontinued in Patna College a few decade in the past, the identical will now stop to be held at schools falling below different varsities from the tutorial session beginning in April this 12 months.
In accordance with the notification, the intermediate training (in all three streams – arts, science and commerce) will now be imparted solely in increased secondary faculties from the brand new session.
The division additionally acknowledged that the Universities Act features a proposal to separate intermediate (plus two) from schools.
The UGC and Administrative Reforms Fee had additionally really helpful delinking intermediate training from diploma schools. However, some universities within the state continued with the Intermediate (plus two) training.