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Unique IDs for govt school students soon
The Department of School Education has decided to introduce a new system under which a unique ID number would be assigned to every student of all the government schools.
Hyderabad: The Department of School Education has decided to introduce a new system under which a unique ID number would be assigned to every student of all the government schools.
The measure would help the authorities track students’ academic career and check corruption in the implementation of schemes meant for students in government-run schools.
According to a senior official of the education department, all the district education officers have been directed to furnish details of students, along with their Aadhaar card numbers, within 10 days to help build a database of the students.
The work has already begun. Once the data base is ready, each student would be given a unique number. The entire process would be completed by the end of December.
Schools in Ranga Reddy, Medchal and Hyderabad have started compiling the data.
The teachers of government schools are collecting data relating to students on 35 parameters, including the Aadhaar number, personal and family details, social status, facilities they receive like set of text books, free transport, free hostel, medicines and benefits from other schemes.
The data would be organised student-wise and the benefits they receive would be recorded in their personal data base.
The database of individual student would be updated in case he or she moves to another educational institute. Admission in the new school would be done strictly on the basis of the updated unique ID.
Officials of the Department of School Education said that the database would be useful to the government in tracking the students’ academic career as well as in helping the government know in case data is manipulated for the sake of illegally accessing benefits under various government schemes.
For, once the data is compiled at the State level and the unique number is given to each student, manipulation of data would become difficult.
Concerns have been raised in government circles that some of the implementing agencies and personnel of government schools have been inflating the numbers of students in schools and misappropriating money on the basis of fudged bills.
For instance, in the case of midday meal scheme, a large number of beneficiaries are shown by not deleting the names of even those students who leave the school, while the names of those seeking new admissions are shown in old records.
Sources said that the State government had been spending Rs 3,000 crore every year for the welfare of students and was implementing programmes like midday meal, free uniforms and textbooks.
Some part of this money is going into the pockets of those behind the implementing agencies and school personnel, the sources added.
