Website hoax: Education deptt website not updated for year

Tahir Mushtaq

JAMMU, Jan 11: Education department of the state government is meant to provide education to the masses besides updating them with the latest information, but in the state like Jammu and Kashmir how can it be possible if the department itself it not updated.

The visit of the website of Education Department of Jammu province www.schedujammu.nic.in revealed the same as the website is not updated from year.

As per the site there are only six districts in this province whereas in reality ten districts are present.

Similarly, the number government and private school in the Jammu province is also not updated from the session 2003-04 and according to them the population remains the same from the last many years.

Likewise, the appointments in the various government educational institutions of Jammu province is also stay as it is from year 2001.

Sources said that the concern authorities is busy in doing other stuff but forget to give revised information to the common masses through their website by which people easily approach them.

“This negligence shows that how education department taking things so casually” preferring anonymity said a employee of education department.

According to the officials, the administration is spending crores of rupees every year to provide ever new facility to the masses but when it comes to the basic information regarding the state and other facilities it shows the relay picture of its working system.

However, Director School Education, Jammu Gulzar Ahmed Qureshi could not be contacted for his version after repeating attempts.

Important to note here that ten years back the state government had taken a major initiative to implement E-Governance in all the departments, Public Sector Undertakings (PSU)s and other organisations under the centrally sponsored scheme.

Most of the support is provided by National Informatics Centre (NIC), which is a premier institution of the Government of India, established in 1976. However respective departments had to maintain the infrastructure which includes the software content.

A senior officer from the company said that lakhs of rupees were invested in introducing Information Technology (IT) and e-Governance in the day to day working of the government but it is not proving useful to anyone.