The state government has resolved the ongoing dispute over digital attendance in government schools of Uttar Pradesh. Yogi Adityanath’s government has given a big relief to the teachers of the state. The angry teachers have been given a grace period to mark attendance, that is, they have been allowed to mark attendance within a certain time period. Principal Secretary of Basic Education Department M Sundaram said that this exemption is for the time till the technical glitch in the Prerna app is fixed.
Principal Secretary M Sundaram also told that many teachers have not been able to learn to mark digital attendance. In such a situation, there is a need to train them. After both these works are done, the time for marking digital attendance will be till 8 am in the morning when the school opens. During this time, a grace period of half an hour has been kept. That is, this grace time will remain till 8:30 am. This rule will also remain during the school closing at 2 o’clock. At this time also a grace period of half an hour has been given. That is, teachers can mark digital attendance till 2:30.
Earlier there was instruction to mark attendance at 7.30
In fact, after the new government rules for digital attendance were issued in government schools of UP, widespread opposition to it started. According to the order issued earlier, instructions were given to mark attendance at 7.30 am and time was given to mark attendance till 8 am, while at the time of closing, there was instruction to mark attendance till 2 pm. There was resentment among the teachers regarding this instruction. Teachers were not able to follow this instruction properly. They had to face technical difficulties in this.
CM Yogi took cognizance by holding a meeting
More than 6 lakh teachers of the state started protesting in this regard. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had taken cognizance of the resentment and protest of the teachers. Teachers had lodged complaints ranging from internet not working properly to the app not opening. In view of this tug of war going on between the education department and the teachers, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath called a meeting on July 11 and understood the whole matter in detail. After which the government decided to give grace time to the teachers.
