Hyderabad, May 6: The Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education (TSBIE) on Sunday clarified that the suicides of 22 students were not due to the errors in the publication of results but due to their poor academic performance. The Board informed that a comprehensive analysis of the answer scripts of students who committed suicide was being done and it was revealed that none of suicides were linked to error in publication of results. The analysis indicated that of the 25 students, 10 had failed in one subject, 12 failed in more than one subject while three despite passing, ended their lives due to poor performance. In total, 22 had committed suicide while three attempted suicide. TSBIE Intermediate Results 2019: 20 Students Commit Suicide in Telangana After Failing in Class 12 Exam, KCR Reprimands Education Minister.

The Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education (TSBIE) on Sunday stated that the suicide were purely based on the poor academic performance of the students in few subjects and it was not related to mistakes due to technical errors & result processing errors'. "Recently several newspapers have written that the suicides of students are due to error in the publication of results. This is uncalled for as there is no truth in this allegation," the Board said in a press release on Sunday. 

According to details in the press release issued by TSBIE, a committee consisting of subject experts was constituted to verify errors in evaluation, posting and totaling of marks. The release stated that a total of 53 answer scripts of failed students who committed/attempted suicide were re-verified by the selected regular lecturers or respective subjects. "It was observed that there was no remarkable change in the result of the students after re-verifying. Failed subjects remained failed after re-verification too," stated the press release.

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