Teachers rue updating diary on MIS portal

The Directorate of School Education’s direction to government school teachers to update the teacher diary on MIS (Management Information System) portal of the Education Department has not gone well with the teachers.

Government school teachers in Kurukshetra have given a call of holding a protest against the department’s direction on April 17 at the district headquarters .

Earlier, the teachers used to fill their diaries manually but from April 9, the department had implemented the decision of filing diary on the MIS portal online.

In a letter issued, the directorate had mentioned that the teachers’ diary was being made available through the MIS portal and the teachers must update their diaries regularly even if they were on election duty, exam duty, training or attending workshop.

The school heads were directed to issue completion certificate every month stating that all teachers had submitted their diaries online. The district-level officials were provided dashboards to check the progress.

Dr Tirshem Kaushik, district president of the Haryana School Lecturers Association (HSLA), said, “The government school teachers were already updating the diaries manually and the teachers never raised any objection. But the directions regarding updating the diary online on the MIS portal is not acceptable. The teachers are already overburdened and such directions will waste a lot of time. Moreover, this is not possible at all in practical terms.”

“A teacher teaching different classes will not be able to update the diaries of all subjects on the MIS portal daily. The teachers share all details with the school heads and the department can take all required information from the school heads. The department should withdraw the orders. The Education Department should understand the ground realities and make policies by communicating with the teachers,” he added.

Kaushik said it had been decided to hold a protest on April 17 at the district headquarters to mark our resentment. All teacher unions would jointly hold the protest. During the demonstration, a memorandum would be submitted to the Director of Secondary Education through the District Education Officer. It had also been decided that a joint meeting of all the unions would be held to decide the future course of action.

Haryana Vidyalaya Adhyapak Sangh (HVAS) district president Virender Singh said, “The department has been trying to keep the teachers engaged in non-educational work in the name of digitisation. Systems like teacher diary on MIS portal will affect the quality of teaching work. We want teachers to be able to focus on their main work of teaching and not get entangled in unnecessary technical formalities.”

Haryana Tribune