Around 10,590 applicants out of over 41,000 were declared successful for admission to 12,000 seats in 80 Jharkhand government-run Schools of Excellence (SoEs) so far, the government has said. On May 2, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren inaugurated 80 government Schools of Excellence, as part of an academic reform to provide quality English-medium education on a par with private schools.
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"In all, 10,590 students were declared successful against 11,936 available seats for admissions to SoEs. Of them, 7,499 have got admissions to classes one, six and nine," a statement from the Chief Minister's Secretariat said on July 10.
