Daijiworld Media Network – Udupi (HB/EP)

Udupi, May 23: People of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi are proud that Udupi is known as the district of the intellectuals. It used to be the top ranked districts in both SSLC results and PUC results. However, Udupi is identified in the friction between students relating to Hijab and Saffron shawl a few months ago.

Udupi has witnessed a few unpleasant incidents in the recent past. Though it tops in the quality of education, the graph of the results has been pointing downward for the last few years. This year, while Dakshina Kannada was ranked 20th position in the SSLC examination results, Udupi had to be content with the 13th position.

People have expressed dissatisfaction that the recent controversies of hijab and shawl have affected the minds of children and brought down the results. The hijab controversy started at government girl’s college and later spread to all the high schools and colleges.

Udupi has secured excellent results for a long time. The results were 88.18% in 2018, 87.97% in 2019 and 99.9% in 2020. The SSLC results this year were 89.46%. Experts opine that the training has been excellent as usual but the percentage has become less for various reasons.