The Surguja district of Chhattisgarh has shown an impressive growth in “Teacher and student presence” in all the Government schools of the district by making use of mobile application named “Edu-Track”, officials informed.
The district has set an example in front of the entire State and showed that by using digital technology a positive change can be brought in schools.
This initiative has been launched by UNICEF across Chhattisgarh with the help of Department of Education with the objective of “Real time monitoring” in education sector for proper implementation of RTE guidelines. Among all the district Surguja has shown a significant growth by using the application.
At present, out of 1895 primary and upper primary schools of Surguja, 1803 schools have been registered with the application.
Daily reporting from schools has increased from 1100 to 1400 and more. Student’s presence in schools has increased from 59% (in Nov. 2016) to 71% (in March 2017). Similarly presence of teacher’s in the school has registered a positive trend and has increased from 70% (in Nov. 16) to 82% (in March -17).
Apart from growth in these quantitative figures other qualitative impacts too has been observed like, the mutual coordination between Head Masters and teachers of respective schools has become better.
All the officers of Department related to monitoring are regularly going to schools for monitoring and hence transparency is coming in system.
Senior teachers are showing willingness to learn new technology. The presence of teachers and students in schools has increased the teaching- learning hours in schools and spread a positive message about government schools in parents and society.
This project has been launched as combined initiative of SSA and UNICEF with the objective of “Real time monitoring” in Education sector. The pilot phase was rolled out in 2014, in all the 2360 schools Dhamtari and Dantewada district and was based on Phone Message system. The outcome was very impressive and the presence of teacher and students in schools has been increased upto 80%. In later phase the system has been improvised to android based system and has been implemented in all the 46000+ primary and upper primary schools of the state. Official inauguration of the application was made by Chief Minister Raman Singh.
Although the application has been launched across the state but its success in Surguja district is quite impressive and has registered presence of teachers 82% and presence of students in schools 71%.