Virus affects registration of pvt schools on dept portal

Vikas Sharma

Tribune News Service

JAMMU, May 12

Amid the ongoing lockdown, the Directorate of School Education, Jammu, (DSEJ) has extended the last date for private schools to register and upload information on Private Schools Information Portal up to May15.

Sources said first it was the management of private schools which had failed to furnish information by uploading requisite documents, despite being asked to, forcing the directorate to extend the date. Now, due to the lockdown, the DSEJ had further extended the date up to May 15.

The portal was launched by the School Education Directorate to ensure a smooth mechanism for monitoring the functioning of private schools as well as for quick disposal of their applications in various matters. It has a database of more than 2,800 private schools of Jammu Province. Around 4,38,115 students are enrolled in 2,816 private schools in Jammu Province.Overall, there are more than 5000 private schools in schools in the Union Territory.

The database on the new portal — schedujammu.nic.in/pvtschool — carries information of all private schools (from pre-primary to ClassXII) affiliated to J&K Board of School Education (JKBOSE), Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and Indian

Certificate of Secondary Examination (ICSE). It has information regarding their infrastructure, employee details, fee details, facilities etc.

The private school managements had been told by authorities to follow its instructions to upload complete information within a fixed time period. In 2018, around 324 private schools had not provided complete information to the Education Directorate. Of these, 70 schools were in Jammu district, followed by Kathua (58), Udhampur (32), Rajouri (31), Poonch (30), Doda (27), Samba (25), Reasi (22) Kishtwar (16) and

Ramban (13).