School Education Department utilizing technology to monitor Schools
Punjab Information Technology Board had initiated an intriguing project, Programme Monitoring and Implementation Unit (PMIU) last year collaboration with the School Education Department (SED) to ensure reformations in the education sector by using technology.Schools By now, this project has started to reveal its fruitful consequences since, during the month of February 2015, around 41 thousand schools of 36 districts of Punjab have been monitored using this technology by the Monitoring and Evaluation Assistances (MEA’s) hired by School Education Department Punjab. Previously, MEA’s who went to monitor schools, used to fill the forms regarding the prevalent situations of those institutions but now they use technological tools provided by PITB for Smart Monitoring of Schools. One of the monitoring tools provided to them is basically a mobile application based on the GPS tagged picture which ensures that the collected data is credible. Additionally, with this Smart Monitoring, the manual way to collect information has been replaced with a advanced one, resulting in fewer errors and more productivity. By monitoring the schools routinely and gathering the real-time statistics, the most basic requirements of getting educations including teacher and student attendance, school facilities like electricity and drinking water etc. can be ensured that will ultimately result in improving indicators of literacy rate of the province.