Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal on Thursday directed to expedite the process of uploading the latest class wise teacher-student data of all schools on the School Information Management System (SIMS), an online portal.

This step aims  to provide quality education to the students by ensuring required student-teacher ratio in all schools upto 12th standard in Haryana, Manohar Lal said while presiding over a meeting of Education Department here.

 Education Minister Ram Bilas Sharma was also present in the meeting.

He said that the government has been working towards making the system more transparent and updated. The Government has already successfully implemented the transparent online teachers transfer policy, he said.

While reviewing the SIMS, the Chief Minister directed that the updated data of students and teachers, both class wise and section wise be made available on a single platform on regular basis  and this too in a time bound manner.

Apart from this, information about the new admissions, dropouts and those leaving the school after completion of their  studies  should also get updated automatically, he said.

To see the functioning of the online portal, he inquired about the student-teacher ratio in Government School Kachhua in district Karnal.

It has been decided in the meeting that the work of organizing Parents Teacher Meeting (PTM) in the government schools would be entrusted to the District Institute for Education and Training (DIET). The teachers of DIET would ensure that the PTM are held in the schools every month.

It was informed that a Training Cell has been set up at the Directorate of the Department for imparting training to the TGT and PGT teachers. Training of two batches of 40 teachers each has already been completed and more such batches would be imparted training in the Cell soon. Several reputed private educational institutions have also approached the Department to train their teaching staff in the Training Cell. 

The Chief Minister was apprized that over 21,000 girls students have applied under the Chatra Parivahan Suraksha Yojana’ scheme, being implemented for  providing free travel facility to the girl students from their home to their educational institutions.  An amount of Rs ten lakh each has been released to all District Education Officers (DEOs) under the scheme.

It was also decided in the meeting that Waste to Wealth Campaign would be organized in the schools as part of the Swacch Bharat Abhiyana.

Education Minister, Ram Bilas Sharma said that he would personally visit one primary, middle or high secondary school once in a week to interact with the students and teachers and also review the quality of education being imparted to them. Similarly, the Directors of the Department and DEOs would also visit one school in their districts every week for this purpose. 

Among those present in the meeting included Rajesh Khullar, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Additional Principal Secretary Rakesh Gupta and others.