Udupi secures second spot

 Udupi District, with 92.32 per cent results, secured second place in the State, in PU board examinations. Compared to last year, there has been considerable improvement in the results. In 2014 too, the district stood at the second position, with 85 percentage. A total of 13,778 students appeared for the examination this time. 

District PU Education Board Deputy Director in-charge R B Naik said all efforts were done to escalate the district to the first position in the State. Teachers were directed to pay individual attention to backward students. Interactions were held in many PU colleges so as to address problems of students. The district missed out first position with a narrow margin, he said.

He said there has been an overall decrease of 7.5 per cent in the results. Introspection will be done as what were the loopholes in the preparations. The district had secured first place in the State in 2010, 2011 and 2013 with 89.08 p.c, 87.15 p.c an 92.72 p.c. respectively.