State govt schools set to send updates to parents’ mobiles

Accordingly, now parents will get all the details like student enrolment times, reminders for holidays, exam schedules, school closures, and even changes to important school policies and welfare schemes in their mobiles. The new measure will be applicable for the students from class 6 to 12.

Since only few private schools use mobile technology to link parents and teachers, the new initiative of the Directorate of School Education is expected to help the parents of 43.48 lakh students studying in government and government aided schools in the State.

A senior official from the School Education Department told DT Next that students’ data, including mobile number of the parents, will be collected and be updated in the Education Management Information System (EMIS), a common platform connecting teachers, students, parents and school management with the government.

“Though we already have a few information about the students in EMIS, the school management will be collecting additional details including thumb impression, iris scanners and two mobile numbers -- one will be main and other will be the alternative one -- so that all the information will be passed through the phone,” he added.

Listing out the details of the information that will be sent to parents, the official said that student’s attendance register, everyday time table, details about special classes, school new initiatives, exam schedule, report card, information on school closure especially during rainy season, monthly performance of the student, school function details, parents-teachers meeting schedule, sports activities, circulars and important government order of public use.