KARACHI: Database of teachers to be prepared from March
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Jan 24: The Sindh Education Management Information System (Semis) would start computerizing the personal data of teaching and non-teaching employees posted at schools and colleges of the province from March.
Sources in the provincial education department said that swift centres equipped with computers, digital cameras and trained staff would be established initially in Thatta, Mirpurkhas, Khairpur and Sanghar.
The centres being launched as pilot projects would collect information from every employee of schools and colleges in line with a questionnaire. The UNICEF and Asian Development Bank are also facilitating the project, added the source.
Every staff would be given certain date to provide information verbally or through documents to the centre which would be set at taluka level in the districts. The employees would present the information as required under the especially designed questionnaire in the presence of an Assistant Education Officer and Education Supervisor of the respective union council.
When contacted the director of Semis, Prof Ilyas Soomro, said that special software had also been prepared for the purpose. After feeding data as well as photograph of the employee, which would be taken on spot by the Semis staff, a computer generated fact-sheet to be called as "staff profile" would be checked and verified by the senior staff and finally be handed over to the teacher or non-teaching staff for his/her personal record.
The idea behind the introduction of the personal management information system was to ensure the availability of data pertaining to staff on finger tips, said the source, adding that this would help getting rid of the official lethargy and undue file works which consume considerable time.
The staff profiling system would ensure verification of educational records and related qualifications, post and grade, place of posting and provide information like date of birth, retirement and promotion of any candidate.
The computerized profile system would also help identifying the ghost teachers and schools as well, while on the other hand possibility of any manoeuvring in the record at any stage would also be eliminated.
The system would help disposing off the cases of teachers at the earliest as the data sheet would also be available with every employee of the schools and colleges and he or she would not need to worry about the movement of his official file or service records unnecessarily, the source remarked.
The Semis director said that there were about 250,000 employees in the government educational institutions and it would take at least one year to get the profiles of entire staff prepared. He said that every personal management information system centre would have two computer operators and one computer programmer.
He said that some other projects planned by Semis in line with the national education management information system included geographical information system, financial information system, online linkage among district, provincial and federal education management information system through DSL or satellite.
