If the data from the Shiksha Setu Axom of the Department of Education has anything to go by, Assam has as many as 2,27,345 underutilized teachers. Such teachers attend less than five sections.
Despite verbal instructions from departmental officers to use their mobile phones for attendance, teachers from affected schools have staunchly refused to comply.
Gone are the days when the State Education Department had to write to the three different directorates of education to get details of vacancies for teaching and non-teaching staff in schools.
The state Department of School Education will make daily attendance tracking of teachers and students through the Shiksha Setu portal compulsory from October 1 onward.