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‘We don’t need no education’ is more than just a song.

It’s really ironical that the main purpose of our education system is to serve, but somehow it is not being fulfilled.

In June 2015, Mohammad Adnan Hilal, a 17-year-old student of Electronics Engineering in Government Polytechnic College committed suicide by jumping into the river Jhelum after failing in his semester examination in Srinagar.

Five months later after a re-evaluation, it was found that not only had he passed in Physics but also topped his class.

“Where can we find him and tell him this is your result and you have topped your class?” asked a shattered Hilal Ahmad Gilkar, Adnan’s father.

Adnan’s mother Abida wept. “I have lost everything and I don’t want to live anymore,” she said.

Family and friends claim he was excellent in Physics and shockingly, it is in this subject that he was initially declared as failed with just 28 marks to his name which later became 48 and added to his overall aggregate of 70%. The minimum pass mark is 33 in his college. But the sad part is, it took the college authorities 4 months to re-evaluate his son’s Physics answer paper.

Hilal Ahmed Gilkar recalled that fateful incident:

“When Adnan returned in the evening on the day of his examination, he informed me that he did well in Physics paper. He told me there was no continuation sheet at the examination center so he had to write the rest of the answers on another answer sheet. He was confident that he had done well.”

When the Jammu and Kashmir State Board of Technical Education (JKSBOTE), was asked, they admitted it was a “mistake” and said, “Such things happen in other universities as well“.

Indian education system has many flaws. This is one big example of how their one small “mistake” cost a family the life of their beloved son.

We need to solve many problems in the education system of India. Isn’t it?

News Source: The Times of India

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