Himachal News: Digital attendance system will be implemented in all schools of the state from August

Shimla, July 16: The present Himachal Pradesh government, which is moving ahead with the goal of improving the level of quality education and making it world class, is going to activate the digital attendance system in the state schools from August 1. Under this, the smart attendance app will collect the attendance information of both students and teachers and send it directly to the top officials of the education department for monitoring, so that the officials will be able to easily take any major decision towards improving the quality education system of the state.

The new digital attendance system will be implemented only after updating the data of around 14 lakh students on the Unified District Information System for Education (U-DISE). The 14 lakh students include students from both government and private schools in the state. As per the latest update, the data of around 9 lakh students has been successfully updated in U-DISE, and the data of the remaining students will be completed in U-DISE by the month of July.

Director of Samagra Shiksha, Rajesh Sharma, during a very important meeting with the officials of the state education department on Monday, directed the officials to implement the new digital attendance system as soon as possible.

Rajesh Sharma also said in the meeting, “Implement the new digital attendance system as soon as possible in all the schools of entire Himachal Pradesh to find out the real-time attendance of teachers and students on the smart attendance app.”

In the meeting, Director Rajesh Sharma discussed in detail with all the officials of Vidya Samiksha Kendra on the subject of real time attendance process of students and teachers. He told the officials that in compliance with the guidelines of the Central Education Ministry, recording of real time attendance through Smart Attendance App in all the schools of the state should be transparent. It is worth noting that Vidya Samiksha Kendra has taken the responsibility of Smart Attendance Mobile App. The dashboard prepared for both the state and district levels of the Smart Attendance App was also discussed.

Through the dashboard, the officials of the Education Department will be aware of all the information of the real time attendance process recorded through the Smart Attendance App.

The smart attendance app will also provide notifications on real-time attendance of students and teachers, teacher transfer and student migration in the integration of U-DISE and Management Information System (MIS). This integration will eliminate problems in U-DISE and MIS data. Teachers will get MIS data, which will enable them to easily match their school data on U-DISE.

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The officials of Vidya Samiksha Kendra have also directed all the District Deputy Directors and District Program Officers to update the data related to the assessment of the learning level of students falling in class 1 and 2.

The officials of Vidya Samiksha Kendra have introduced the accomplished Pragati Chat Bot for online assessment of the learning level of students falling in class 1 and 2, which helps in assessing the learning progress of small students. Sharma assured that any technical problem arising during this process will be resolved immediately by the Vidya Samiksha Kendra.

The new digital attendance system will end the arbitrary behaviour of teachers in state schools and the initiative of digital school in digital India will also be meaningful.