Education Minister Sasmit Pokharel Clarifies Class 12 Result Publication

Kathmandu. Education and Sports Minister Sasmit Pokharel has clarified that the answer scripts were not rushed in checking to publish the Class 12 results quickly. Writing a status on social media Facebook today, Saturday, Minister Pokharel said that the answer scripts were not rushed in checking, but rather the necessary manpower has been increased.

Pokharel said, 'The answer script checking was not rushed. Rather, the necessary manpower has been increased, the compulsion to bring it to Kathmandu for re-examination has been removed, the practice of holding answer scripts for a long time has been ended, and the checking process has been started on time. Also, I want to remind you that this year the pass percentage has increased by about 8 percent compared to last year.'

He said that none of the necessary procedures adopted in the past to publish the results quickly have been removed. In the past, after checking the answer scripts, all materials were brought to Kathmandu for re-examination. This year, arrangements have been made to conduct the re-examination at the concerned location itself, thus removing the compulsion to bring it to Kathmandu.

'The practice of holding answer scripts for an unnecessarily long time has been controlled and the checking process has been started on time. This does not mean that anyone has been made to check in a hurry. More manpower than in the past has been mobilized to make the checking work effective and unnecessary administrative and procedural delays have not been allowed,' he said.

Pokharel's statement is that the results this year have been improved from the situation where the results used to come unnecessarily late in the past, rather than coming out 'unusually quickly'.

He also reminded that this year the pass percentage in Class 12 has increased by about 8 percent compared to last year.