Bhubaneswar, Feb. 14 -- While the Government is in its efforts to improve the quality of education in Odisha, Class 8 students are lagging behind in mathematical calculations like subtraction and division.

This was revealed by School & Mass Education, ST & SC Development, Minorities & Backward Classes Welfare Minister Nityananda Gond while replying to a question asked by MLA Chakramani Kanhar in Assembly.

Answring to query in the House, the Minister said that the students at Standard 8 do not know the simple arithmetic operations like subtraction and division.

As per the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), only 69.5% students in Class 8 in Odisha schools know substraction and 48.5% know the division in mathmatics, whereas the nat...