Delhi government to use e-IDs to track bunking in schools

Chennai

At present, there are around 1,000 government schools in the national capital with over 15 lakh students. “We have plans to introduce electronic chip-fitted cards for students which will be connected to sensor-based CCTV cameras installed in institution premises. “With this chip, the government will be able to keep a check on bunking of class by students and sharing the information with parents,” Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who also holds education portfolio, said. According to Sisodia, through the ID card the school administration can detect movement of students and, if he or she bunks class, they will get to know about this. “Parents will be able to detect how many times students has bunked their classes,” he said. Apart from this, Sisodia said the government will develop a ‘School Village’, which will have 10 schools specialising in different categories like science, sports, commerce, in North-East Delhi.