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CBSE 12th result 2018: Are Delhi govt schools really outdoing private ones?

Children who have lagged behind or failed Class IX are staying at home or are part of open schooling now

CBSE 12th result 2018: Are Delhi govt schools really outdoing private ones?
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Ritwik Sharma
It’s summer vacation time, and the sun is beating down characteristically on Delhi. As a bazaar in the southern neighbourhood of Jangpura comes to life in the morning, children in uniform are already trickling out of a government school in a corner.
 
The children at the Government Co-ed Secondary School in Jangpura, studying in Classes VI to IX, have just attended remedial classes introduced under a new initiative of the state government. “Mission Buniyaad” aims to help stragglers improve basics such as reading and writing or solving math problems.
 
Poonam, a ninth-grader who is playing with a toy