Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 28: The Department of Education is going ahead with child tracking in sync with the rest of the country under All Student Monitoring Individual Tracking and Analysis (ASMITA), which was launched by the Union Ministry of Human Resource and Development in the month of July this year.
Under the ambitious project a database of all school going children of the State will be created and put online. The Department of Education is targeting to map all 27.59 lakh school going children of the State up to class 12th both under the private and public domain.
Details of students like Aadhaar number, social category, mother tongue, habitation, disability status, access to textbooks, transport, escort, hostel and mid-day meal facilities, contact number of guardians and the medical status of the students will be mapped in the project with the help of a 35 point format, devised by National University of Education Planning and Administration (NEUPA), the nodal agency at the national level for the execution of the project.
It will enable the education administrators to facilitate various benefits and interventions for the students in the most effective and scientific manner. Academic inputs designed to address different issues such as remedial coaching to weak students will be imparted in a more focused and effective manner.
Remedial coaching is an integral part of the Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) launched in 2009 in J&K, which however could not take off well due to non-availability of relevant data.
The data will also be used to recognize the areas of strength of a child and help in planning interventions such as Vocational Education in a more effective way. The system will help in tracking students belonging to economically weaker sections and disadvantaged groups.
The Aadhaar number of the beneficiary students will be linked with their bank accounts for direct benefit transfer of scholarships. Medical interventions can also be improved substantially by taking help of such data, which will become extremely useful for tracking school dropouts and thereby facilitating the educational administrators to impart focused attention on needy children.
The Directorate of SSA, J&K the nodal agency for the project has undertaken many rounds of training for district officials and the capturing and digitizing of data is progressing at a steady pace. The process of data collection was started in the Jammu division in the month of August wherein 90% of manual data collection of over 12 lakh students has been completed.
However in Kashmir division the data collection has started now. It is expected that Jammu & Kashmir will complete the process by the end of November and be able to reap the benefits of ASMITA on the lines of Punjab and Chandigarh.
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