Technology may improve our education system ?

In India since independence it has been a game of accusations and of the counter accusations as far as the education system is concerned . It is generally believed that to teach should be the least priority job in the hierarchy of the jobs and even if one becomes a teacher, the teaching is not taken as a professionin the schools of India but as a side business. The teachers project that students are not interestd to study and the students declare that the teachers don't come to teach or don't teach. But it may be fault of any of the two but the question that it is the india which is suffering due to their attitude.
The story below is the indicator of how badly the things have gone wrong with our education system in India , in the leading daily of India ‘Times of India’ dated Jan 29,2007.

Rajpipla (Gujarat): A village school and no teachers in sight. If that's the script for a story called 'education in rural India', the backward, tribal-dominated Narmada district in Gujarat is fast re-writing this, to their ad­vantage.
The local tribals call it the "angutha" (thumb) solution to the problems of the "angutha­chhap" (the illiterate) - a finger­print biometric attendance sys­tem introduced in the district and taluka offices, including schools. Though teachers chose to stay away from village schools and lit­eracy rates dipped, those in pow­er hardly took note. But not Milind Torawane, 34, an IAS of­ficer and the Narmada district development officer (DDO). He is the architect of the 'biometric' revolution that is bringing about a drastic change in the education system in the district, which has a low literacy rate and fmale lit­eracy is worse.
While the system will be im­plemented in all the 680 schools of the district by February, officials admit it holds enough prom­ise to bring about sweeping changes in the education system in Gujarat. "Over Rs 20 crore is spent on teachers' salaries an­nually in Narmada district alone. If I succeed in reducing absen­teeism by 10 per cent, we will save Rs 2 crore," says Torawane.
Torawane has worked out the economics. "Each machine costs about Rs 25,000. This is not a high cost for the government, consid­ering the benefits," he says.
A total of 2,508 teachers and 76,994 students of class one to sev­en will record their attendance by this system when all the pri­mary schools are covered by the end of the year. The news of the fingerprint attendance machine being in­stalled has caused a flutter in the district
"Teachers are in the habit of marking their presence on reg­isters and staying away from schools or leaving early," says VK Joshi, assistant district educa­tion officer, who blames absen­teeism amongst teachers as the main reason for a high dropout rate in the district
"The machine will pin responsibility on teachers who come to school only to sign the register. It will also prompt par­ents to send their children to school regularly," said Sanabhai Prajapati, primary school teacher at Alampura village, who was at the Tilakwada taluka panchayat office to learn the functioning of the biometric attendance ma­chine. Torawane also plans to use the biometric system for proper implementation of the mid-day meal scheme in schools by pre­venting pilferage of food, anoth­er problem plaguing government schools.
"The government spends Rs 2.50 for every child a day. With biometric attendance, officials concerned would be able to com­pare the actual attendance of school children with the avail­able stock of food items. The sys­tem will have an automated pay­roll system for teachers. It will also maintain leave accounts, salary accounts and even incre­ments," says Torawane.
Torawane's plan is already be­coming popular in Gujarat Tak­ing the cue, Vadodara DDO M Thennarsan has decided to im­plement the biometric attendance system in all the 38 'ashram sha­las' of the hilly tribal areas of Vadodara district, where adiva­sis children live and get primary education with government fund­ing.
State tribal secretary Anand Mohan Tiwari said, "After re­viewing the Narmada experi­ment, followed by the one in Vado­dara, we will decide within six months from now on replicating it in all the 454 ashram shalas."
"Over the next three years, we plan to put up the biometric ma­chines in all the 40-odd backward talukas of Gujarat. It would be done after studying the Narma­da experiment," a senior educa­tion department official said.

Going by the above scenario, I may add that in whole of the country this situation prevails but only degree varies. In the state of J&K , there is more to it and imagine that many of the teachers have sublet their posts as they are posted away from the place where they are running their businesses? But it is the reality that mere semi literate people are engaged by the real teachers on a commission basis and the teachers prefer not to visit the place of posting for the teaching but for collecting their salary at the end of the month. Teaching to them is mere an activity of leisure and time pass and not a passion . So, I think that experiment of the Narmada needs to be taken here in the whole of the J&K in order to weed out the menace of absenteeism and of the truancy among the teachers who are not doing their cause with honesty.

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