Coming Soon: Smart schools in 4 BJP states

Centre is planning a unified digital system to track attendance, performance of teachers, students

The workings of government schools might not be the same from next year, with the Centre planning to roll out an ambitious unified digital system to track the performance of teachers and students, and address the issue of absenteeism among them.

All government school teachers will have to daily record their attendance, the performance of students and the mid-day meal scheme’s progress, either on a tablet or a smartphone, after the roll-out of the digital system.

The government plans to track various performance parameters of 8.7 million school teachers, 250 million students and 1.5 million government or government-aided schools through