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Thursday, Nov 18, 2004

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New website on school students

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, NOV. 17. In another major milestone, the State Education Department today launched its new web-based student performance tracking system. This new website enables maintenance of personal details of nearly nine lakh students, their performance in examination, health, discipline, the entire registration and admission process.

Launching the website at the Delhi pavilion at Pragati Maidan today, the Education Minister, Arvinder Singh Lovely, said it was yet another step to fulfil the dream of the former Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, to spread education and awareness among students through use of Information Technology. The Education Minister informed that under this new software, students and parents would be given a code. This code would also be kept with the Education Department. Through use of this code, individual parents can access the various details about their wards and make constant efforts to improve it. The best part of this software is that it contains full details about all the nine lakh students individually and keeps track of their performance subject wise. "It is the initiative of the Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit, who had expressed keen interest that best possible facilities should be provided to students and technology should be used for their benefit,'' he added.

Mr. Lovely said around 3,00,000 children took admissions in Government schools every year. During admission time, there is a preference for certain Government schools over other schools. This puts additional pressure on some schools whereas some other schools in the neighbourhood are under utilised in terms of their capacity and resources. To rectify this anomaly, the Department was planning to offer online admission to all the children of Delhi in its Government schools. The system would also enable issuance of school leaving and other certificates, maintenance of health record, discipline and behaviour of each and every child and take corrective measures.

The Education Minister informed that already a provision had been made to ensure that the attendance of students and teachers was done online through the computerisation system in the Government schools. He said Delhi was the first State in the country to carry out 100 per cent computerisation in its schools and hoped that this would help in better growth and nurturing of the future generation.

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