As part of a Student Tracking System, Ahmedabad-based ICT Infracon, with grants from the Infosys Foundation, has developed a unique nine-digit number code which will be issued to each school going child this academic year in Karnataka. This system is foreseen as a mainstay management tool for the Education Department, with systematised and only available online records on enrollment, attendance, and academic performance among others heads.
Infosys Foundation chairperson Sudha Murty said, “The system will provide a comprehensive action plan for continued development of a child. It intends to thoroughly track the child’s growth through his/her formative years including nutrition, health-related statistics etc. It will not only provide us with numbers but will also help us identify the causes for those numbers,” Due to inherent difficulties faced by authorities in the existing system, this system has been well accepted. The nine-digit number will be linked to Aadhar and will replace the 17-digit code -comprising district code, block code, school code, and year of admission -issued for each student as part of the existing District Information System for Education. Migration of a child from one school to another results in invalidity of this 17-digit code. With the online system and the unique number, Headmasters can login to the portal and enter data to track the student followed by data entry at the cluster level, block level and district level. An application for the same system has also been devised for all smart phones and tablets.
According to IIMB professor Gopal Naik, this unique tracking can help in academic interventions. The system can also run analytic to gain a better understanding of the huge volumes of data. For example, reasons for a school dropout can be determined and suitable interventions can be planned. This thoughtful, philanthropic endeavor is good news for the society, as along with streamlining volumes of paper work it shall also narrow down the obvious reasons of any particular child’s academic lag.
News Source: Economic Times
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