Bihar: Give students’ data or face action, DEOs told

Faryal Rumi | TNN | Updated: May 4, 2020, 11:11 IST

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PATNA: The state education department has issued show-cause notices to district education officers (DEOs) for not uploading the data of students of secondary and higher secondary government schools to Medhasoft, a software developed by NIC.
According to education department, the DEOs were earlier asked to upload the data of students of classes IX to XI, who achieved 75% attendance in 2019-20 academic session, to Medhasoft. However, data of students from 7,716 secondary and higher secondary schools in the state have not been uploaded yet.
Director of secondary education Giriwar Dayal Singh said the department is unable to disburse the funds to students studying in 7,716 schools due to lack of data.
The funds are for several state-run schemes like scholarship for girls, Kanya Uthan Yojana, Cycle Yojana and Poshak Yojana. Only students who have achieved 75% attendance will get financial assistance under these schemes.
“In 2019 Matriculation examination conducted by Bihar School Examination Board, around 3,62,413 girls passed. Of them, 3,31,530 candidates’ data, including bank account number, marital status and Aadhaar card number are available on the software. The data of 30,883 students are missing,” Singh said.
He added, “We have already provided financial assistance to 3,31,530 girls, who have received Rs 10,000 each under the scholarship scheme for higher studies.”
The DEOs have been asked to explain the reason for their failure to submit the data of students. “If the DEOs fail to come up with proper relies, they will face departmental action,” Singh adde.