The poor performance of the students of the North-Eastern Region, particularly those belonging to the scheduled tribes from Hill areas, figured in the discussion of the Development Commissioner’s meeting held here on July 17.
Some representatives mentioned how their nominees could not avail of seats in different Agricultural Universities as most of them secured lower marks than the minimum prescribed for admission by those Institutions. The Development Commissioner of Assam, Mr H. N. Das, mentioned about the poor performance of the students in the admission tests of the I.I.T. as revealed from the fact that only a couple of candidates from North-Eastern could qualify this year, although things were quite better even two decades ago.