Keeping pace with technology, Punjab Education Department on Thursday launched a mobile application to manage the data pertaining to the mid-day meal (MDM) scheme.
Describing it as another futuristic step after launching a “novel and one-of-its-kind” Mid-Day Meal (MDM) app, the state Education Minister Aruna Chaudhary said that the Department of School Education has developed the software to manage MDM related data.
“School teachers are required to maintain record of MDM related activities and as of now as many as eight-nine registers are being maintained for this purpose which consumes valuable time of teachers’ which is meant to be used for teaching-learning process,” pointd the Minister adding that technological advancement would help save the precious time of teachers which would be devoted to academic affairs.
Chaudhary said that the MDM scheme has been implemented for students studying in Classes I to VIII in all the Government schools and Government aided schools across the country as per the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development guidelines.