Government-run schools in the national capital topped the category of best performing government institutions across the country with a success rate of 90.99 in the CBSE class X exams results, which was announced today.The success rate has increased by 1.55% this year from last year's 89.44%."We have topped the category of best performing governmentschools for the fifth consecutive year. I congratulate thestudents, teachers, officials of my department and the parentsfor the achievement," Delhi education minister Arvinder SinghLovely said.The education minister said 94.46% students from co-education schools (highest in all the three categories) became eligible for the qualifying certificate.Panchkula region finished second in the category of government-run schools with a success rate of 70.56% among.Girls continue to outperform boys with 91.75% of them becoming eligible for qualifying certificate against 88.15% boys. CBSE has done away with the practice of declaring any candidate failed.Lovely said out of 1,32,020 students, who appeared in the board exam, 1,20,120 became eligible for the qualifying certificate.He said in 166 schools, 100% students have cleared the test while in 609 schools the success rate was 90% and above. Students from 851 government schools had appeared.Giving an account of initiatives taken by the government to  improve educational infrastructure in schools, he saidfacilities at 78 schools have already been upgraded under theRoopantar-I project. "We have identified 56 other schools where facilities will be improved under Roopantar II project," Lovely said.

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