Express News Service
JAGATSINGHPUR: Shyamarani (title withheld) is a Class VII pupil of Gopal Vidyapitha High School, in Jagatsinghpur block. She apparently additionally research at Kutamchandi Upper Primary School in the identical block. The admission has been finished below similar Aadhaar Card however her distinctive pupil ID and Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE) numbers are totally different within the two faculties.
Similar is the case of Animika (not actual title) who has been enrolled in Class II of Saraswati Sishu Vidya Mandir in addition to Class III in Rayankpatana Primary college. Sridevi (not actual title) has double admissions in Class VI in Haramani Devi Public School and Narendra Nath Nodal Bidyapitha in Erasama block whereas one other pupil is concurrently enrolled in Class III in Nuapari Project Primary School and Saraswati Sishu Mandir in Kortal below Nuagaon block.
These aren’t any random instances of enrolment, nor are these situations of scholars with similar names. There are over 6,000 such college students who’re enrolled in a couple of college on the similar time. With the Odisha authorities merging and shutting down faculties with low pupil consumption, sources in Sarva Sikhsha Abhiyan (SSA), Jagatsinghpur mentioned, fearing closure, many colleges allegedly have resorted to rigging enrollment numbers with double or triple admissions of scholars.
In the present tutorial session, round 6,062 out of 1.61 lakh college students enrolled below the scheme within the district have been discovered to be doubly enrolled in government-run major faculties, excessive faculties and in addition non-public faculties. There are 272 excessive faculties and 1148 major faculties within the district.
Sources mentioned many government-run major faculties other than non-public faculties have been discovered to have enrolled the identical college students to extend consumption to acquire No Objection Certificate (NOC) and recognition from the federal government. The irregularities have been detected when college students with the identical Aadhaar card quantity have been discovered with totally different UDISE codes. Sources mentioned many colleges had not even deleted title of scholars from the admission register after situation of switch certificates.
The a number of enrolments additionally provides to hypothesis on misuse of funds below schemes like mid-day meals, books, cycles, research supplies, sneakers, costume supplies and different advantages that college students are entitled to. Some lecturers allege that the manipulation have been glossed over by School and Mass Education Department officers within the district.
Contacted, district mission coordinator, SSA, Sapan Kumar Jena admitted that just about 6,062 college students have been discovered to have been doubly enrolled in numerous faculties right here. “The department has directed all block education officers (BEO) for verification. Verification is still underway and will take another two to three weeks to complete. After finalisation of verification, stern action will be taken against the errant employees for manipulation in enrollment,” Jena added.
The School and Mass Education division not too long ago revised the merger plan and clarified that elementary and secondary faculties having enrolment lower than or equal to fifteen in Scheduled and KBK areas and people having lower than 20 college students in different areas will likely be merged with faculties close by, regardless of distance. It had initiated the method for closure of round 7,700 elementary and secondary faculties within the first section of which round, 900 have already been shut.