LAHORE: The Punjab School Education Department (SED) will establish online e-profiles of 600,000 schoolteachers and after that there will be no need to maintain service books.

The SED Human Resource Management will manage the profiles where teachers’ pictures and other documents would be uploaded.

Under the first phase, 11 districts would upgrade its infrastructure and get desktop computers, scanners, printers, UPS, a table and chair to do the profile work.

Districts can get this equipment from the Punjab Information Technology Board on July 17, 20 and 21.

As the ban on transfer and posting was lifted, School Information System data management became a challenge for the SED. The department issued several deadlines to update data on schools and human resources to the authorities but it could not completely be done error free yet because as many as the data of 30,000 teachers of the province had issues either incomplete or wrong information added.

Up to 205 school teachers’ data, eight headmasters and 89 retired teachers were found wrong in district Lahore. The authorities again directed the department to update and remove errors from the data and strict action would be taken against the people for not completing the directions.

The SED also directed the school heads to update and remove errors from their subordinate teachers data otherwise the department would also take strict action against them.

Published in Dawn, July 18th, 2020