Your cover story ‘26 NGOs enabling Indian education’ (EW August) was a revelation. All the NGOs profiled deserve encomiums for bringing quality education and health services to underprivileged children and youth abandoned by government institutions. Even more commendable is that these NGOs are led by highly-educated and qualified individuals, who have given up successful professional careers to devote their lives to providing the country’s neglected children access to quality education. 

I was particularly impressed by the humanitarian work of Safeena Husain of Educate Girls. Empowering local communities by improving and upgrading government schools is the way to fast track and sustain reform of the ruined government school system.

Mayuri Mathur
Delhi

Tarnished reputation

It’s sad that THE EW CISCE & CBSE Academic Rankings 2016 sourced from www.thelearningpoint.net have been a big disappointment (EW July). Delhi Public School, Ghaziabad (DPSG) prides itself on being a transparent institution and any erroneous information published about it is treated with utmost seriousness.

DPSG’s average in the CBSE class XII exam has been printed as 88 percent in your academic league table, which is way below the actual 89.04 percent average of the school. This error has tarnished our reputation as a front-runner in providing quality education. 

We believe two important points have been intentionally ignored in the rankings: the sixth subject has not been considered while calculating the average, and the scores have been printed before revaluation. After revaluation, DPSG’s class XII average is 89.68 percent and the median 90.6 percent.

Consequently, we are shocked that our results were deliberately under-stated to damage our reputation. 
Jyoti Gupta
Principal, Delhi Public School Ghaziabad

Prashant Bhattacharjee of thelearningpoint.net says: The EW-LearningPoint league tables clearly indicate that schools are ranked according to five subject averages. Therefore the question of considering a sixth subject doesn’t arise. Moreover, deadlines don’t permit us to await upgraded results. I have no knowledge of DPSG; therefore to imply a bias against this school is absurd. As clearly stated on the website, for candidates with extra subjects, we use the scores in English + best four subjects. 

Exclusion complaint

Re the EW CISCE & CBSE Academic Rankings 2016 published in the August issue of your esteemed magazine, you have not included one of Noida’s most reputed schools — Ryan International School — which has many achievements to its credit, and has consistently produced excellent board results in the CBSE class XII exam.

For your information, the district (Gautam Budh Nagar) and zonal (CBSE Dehradun region) toppers in the class XII CBSE exam are from Ryan International, Noida. We would be obliged if you could enlighten us on the possible reasons why we didn’t qualify to be listed among the Top 100 CBSE schools.

Anuradha Sharma
Principal, Ryan International School, Noida

The EW CISCE & CBSE Academic Rankings 2016 include Top 100 CBSE schools with more than 66 examinees with 90 percent-plus in the class XII exam. As stated in our commentary, for space constraint reasons, 66 is the cut-off number. Only 34 students of Ryan International, Noida averaged 90 percent-plus. For the results of high performance schools, with less than 66 90 percenters, please visit www.thelearningpoint.net — Editor

Credibility question mark
Last year, in an email dated September 18 we had highlighted the omission of Bal Bharati Public School, Dwarka from the EW CISCE & CBSE Academic Rankings. It is alarming that our school has yet again been excluded in the 2016 rankings.

This puts a question mark on the credibility of the ranking exercise done by your organisation. The omission has dented the school’s reputation. Please note — of the 149 students who wrote the CBSE class XII exam (2016), 47 scored 90 percent-plus with the school average being 84.14 percent.
Suruchi Gandhi 
Principal, Bal Bharati Public School, Dwarka, New Delhi

See reply to the previous letter — Editor