Rohtak: App for recording students’ attendance in colleges

Ravinder Saini

Rohtak, July 17

Parents of the college-going students will now be able to get status of their wards’ attendance every month through SMS notification without visiting their wards’ educational institutes.

The Department of Higher Education (DHE) is creating an online application for recording and managing attendance not only of students but also of faculty members. This application will, as per sources, come into effect from August 1.

“Besides parents, the application will keep updating higher authorities on the status of every student in all government colleges across the state. At present, the students’ attendance is noted down by teachers in their registers. Parents have to visit the colleges to get the status of their wards’ attendance. The college authorities inform parents in case their attendance remains short or they remain absent for a long time,” said a DHE official.

He said, “This application will enable college faculties to record student attendance daily. The faculty will maintain a register for uploading the application from August 1. The online application will allow faculty to record attendance lecture-wise (number of scheduled lecturers, number of lectures attended) starting from this academic session on a weekly basis, the sources said.

The sources say at the end of each month, the system would automatically send SMS notifications to the parents so that they could know the attendance status of their wards, especially those whose attendance falls below the threshold.

“The DHE has informed the principals of all government colleges in the state about the move by sending a communiqué in this regard. They have also been asked to adhere to the instructions strictly,” the sources claimed.