‘Excess teachers fear deployment’

“While the EMIS has been implemented in 2,179 schools, including 200 aided institutions, in Tiruvannamalai, in Vellore 9% of the 3,383 schools are yet to be covered under this system,” a top official said.

The EMIS software would upload the day-to-day data of number of students attending the school in an institution. This enables officials to know the exact strength of the intuition without any approximation. Earlier, when the attendance information was manually provided by the schools, “there were chances for the school management to tweak the students’ strength to retain the teaching staff,’ sources revealed.

Allaying fears of teachers, education officials in Tiruvannamalai said, “We now get the strength of students daily, hence excess teachers in a school will be automatically deployed to other locations, where there is a shortage. Annually we thus redeploy around 40 teachers.”

When asked in Vellore, officials said that they have been receiving the exact figures of the students attending school.