The Uttar Pradesh secondary education department has initiated a number of portals to boost education and address the needs of the students. The department is launching a portal “Pahunch” for school mapping so it may serve in unserved habitation.
This was stated by the secondary education minister (Independent Charge), Gulab Devi on Tuesday. She said, “It will help in identifying areas suitable for building a new school.”
The school mapping software portal has been developed in collaboration with Bhaskar Acharya National Institute for Space Applications and Geo-Informatics, Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
A career guidance portal Pankh has also been developed for students to make them aware of options after Classes 10 and 12. The students would be able to choose careers matching their interests and aptitudes and get advice about available options regarding college, scholarships, skill development programme and internships etc.
Currently, this portal is free for students of government and government-aided secondary schools.
An e-library portal Pragyan and a mobile app have been developed to provide contemporary and reference material for the students and the general public at large. A huge collection of competitive books, reference books, NCERT books, magazines, newspapers and information about Start-Ups are available on the portal. This portal is available for all citizens and users will be able to access the number of books in digital mode and access information about it.
“Parakh” portal has been developed for schools’ online monitoring and grading. This portal has been developed for monitoring government colleges and will be helpful to get information about the activities in schools and to monitor, supervise and observe the classroom teaching according to the prescribed annual academic calendar.
