Rohtak: Edu officers told not to give data to NGOs as process hampers studies
Ravinder Saini
Rohtak, February 25
The Directorate of School Education has directed all district elementary education officers (DEEOs), block resources coordinators (BRCs), block education officers (BEOs) and foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN) coordinators not to provide data pertaining to students, teachers and schools etc to any non-government organisation (NGO) on their own. They (NGOs) will have to contact the department to seek the information.
Sources said the instructions had been issued while taking a serious note of unwanted visits of the NGOs to government schools and offices of district education officials to collect the details about the students’ enrolment, their categories, results and other school-related activities. The practice not only hampers studies but distracts the attention of schoolteachers.
“The school teachers and other stakeholders have been executing the NIPUN Haryana Mission in an efficient manner by organising various programmes and teaching works at the class level. It has come to the knowledge that some NGOs are getting the data of various sorts from schools, block and District Education Officers. It affects the teaching work as they have to spend their time and energy in providing them the data,” states a communique sent by the Directorate to the education officers in the district recently.
The communiqué further states such data should not be given to any of the NGOs. If any NGO needs the data then it can contact the department for the purpose. The department will provide as per the requirement only those sought information that are found in the data available on its app. The officials have been asked to ensure the compliance of the instructions.
“At present, many NGOs are working in the field of education across the state and they need the data pertaining to various aspects of school education like student enrolment, teachers availability, facilities available there, health check-up of students, midday meals, results and performances etc. hence their representatives visit the schools and offices of the education officer to get the information,” said an official of the Education Department.
He said the NGOs also used to seek the information about the outcomes of various schemes being executed for uplifting the standards of education, enhance students’ skills and other programmes that were conducted in the schools.
“It consumes a lot of time to provide the information to the NGOs’ representatives as these have to be compiled and the staffers have to be roped in to do so. This process leads to hampering the studies and waste of teachers’ time unnecessarily so the state authorities have to issue such instructions,” he added.
‘Unwanted’ visits to schools
Sources said instructions had been issued while taking a serious note of unwanted visits of the NGOs togovernment schools and offices of district education officials to collect details about the students’ enrolment, their categories, results and other school-related activities. The practice not only hampers studies but distracts the attention of schoolteachers.
