very true, it is the same like people are opposing aadhar for their pan and
bank accounts, but they are willingly give their finger prints at shirdi and
tirupati temple.
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From: Kanchan Pamnani
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2018 4:47 PM
To: 'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning
the disabled.'
Subject: [AI] FW: Why these teachers need to climb trees in school every day
I shared this article because this is what will happen to us when we need to
check our currency notes thanks to the RBI's reliance on an App.
The reality in India is that we don’t want to enforce computers for exams
because the electricity can fail but the same argument is not being used
against the RBI when currency notes have to be checked and connectivity
cannot be relied upon.
This article shows India's reality . I didn’t invent this article. This has
been our stand against RBI and our own folks let us down on this trip to
reliance on modern technology.
Hopefully someone will take this fight further.
Kanchan
From: Kanchan Pamnani [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 09 October 2018 14:28
To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issuesconcerning
the disabled.
Subject: Why these teachers need to climb trees in school every day
Why these teachers need to climb trees in school every day
* The Times of India (New Delhi edition)
* 8 Oct 2018
*
Daltonganj: Every morning, the six teachers at Upgraded Plus Two School in
Sohri Khas village, 41km from here in Jharkhand’s Palamu district gather at
the courtyard. In their hands is a tablet connected to a biometric reader on
which they have to record their thumbprints for attendance. The problem is
the internet connection is frequently absent. This forces two or three of
the teachers to climb a palash tree in the school campus while the students
watch. On a good day, they get a weak connection high on the tree’s
branches.
“There is no internet connectivity on our campus at all. We can access a
very weak 2G network if we climb up the tree and wait, but even that is
quite unreliable,” says Arpan Kumar Gupta, a teacher. Not all of the
teachers can climb the tree, certainly not every day. The rest have to fall
back on conventional methods.
“When the tablet does not connect to the internet, we mark our attendance on
the register. There has to be some record,” Gupta adds.
They are not alone in this predicament. Across northwestern Jharkhand,
teachers at several schools have been unable to record their attendance
online, as part of a new state government initiative, because the
infrastructure in the rural parts of the state is just not up to the task of
handling the demands of digital connectivity.
Under the Gyanodaya scheme launched by CM Raghubar Das in 2017, the state
government began distributing tablets to schools. The devices were pre-in-
stalled with the e-Vidya Vahini app, which records biometric attendance of
teachers and also monitors the admission and drop-out rates and other
parameters.
Periodically, progress reports on teachers and students, academic
performances and inspections (which are filled by the respective cluster or
block resource person) are also to be filed through the app. The school at
Sohri Khas, which has 800 students, got the tablet on September 25. The
palash tree has been their saviour ever since.
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