Private schools not updating enrolment data on time: Haryana Government
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, July 5
The Haryana School Education Department has directed all private schools to update their management information system (MIS) to provide accurate information on the enrolment of students.
Giving information, an official spokesperson for the department said 29 lakh students were enrolled in private schools last year. Of these, the record of only 17 lakh students had been updated on the MIS so far.
He said the MIS aimed at covering all government and private schools, through which admissions could be actively monitored through a unique student registration number (SRN) given to every student.
He said the private schools were not updating the students’ data on the portal on time.
He said 12 lakh children were still on the portal, but their record had not been updated on the portal.
The spokesperson said Education Minister Kanwar Pal had directed all private schools to update their MIS immediately.
After the stipulated time frame, strict action would be taken against the schools if they failed to update the record.
The spokesperson said all district education officers and district primary education officers were directed to take up the matter with all private schools and get the enrollment of students updated on the MIS.
Besides, the associations of private schools were also apprised of the matter.
The spokesperson said earlier, at a meeting chaired by the Education Minister, it was decided to open schools for teachers from May 1 to bring the dropout rate in schools to zero during Covid. After this, online admissions were started so that parents should not be inconvenienced. After assessing the enrollment on May 30, it was found that the parents were not much interested in sending their children to school. In view of this, the admission date was extended till June 30 by the Education Minister.
He said as a result of continuous efforts and hard work initiated by government schools, 23.6 lakh students were enrolled and thus 1.6 lakh more children were admitted as compared to the last year.
