Confusion over DEO's official website

Tribune news service

Amritsar, November 30

Aam Aadmi Party’s National Council Member (National Executive Member) Harinder Singh and Amritsar leader Vishal Joshi claimed that the official website of the District Education Office remained suspended due to non-payment, causing inconvenience to more than 2,000 government, aided, and recognised schools, and 1,000 private schools in the district.

The website www.deoseasr.org has been closed for the last few days and the reason for the side closure is due to non-payment of the website.

Meanwhile, refuting claims, Sushil Kumar Tuli, DEO, said the Education Department uses two websites for official communication i.e. www.ssapunjab.org and www.e-Punjabschools.gov.in. “The other websites were made a few months ago as dummy websites as part of our efforts to digitise department’s functions. We do not have any separate official website for the district,” Tuli said.

There are 2,000 affiliated government and there are about 1,000 private schools that receive necessary guidelines, circulars, notifications daily from the Education Department and government. While Tuli maintained that no miscommunication has occurred regarding the matter, the representatives of the aided schools say that they were using the now defunct websites for official information.