JAMMU: Chief Secretary, Atal Dulloo, today visited the Vidya Samiksha Kendra (VSK) established inside Teachers Bhawan, Gandhi Nagar, and reviewed the functioning of the institute. “This facility is going to further refine our education system on modern lines as envisaged under the New Education Policy-2020, maintained the Chief Secretary while speaking during his inspection visit to the VSK.

Principal Secretary, School Education Department, Project Director, Samagra Shiksha, Director, School Education, Jammu besides other concerned officers of the Education Department accompanied the Chief Secretary. While inspecting the VSK that would soon be launched, the Chief Secretary maintained that the facility aims at improving the learning outcomes of pupils enrolled in our schools. He called it a transformative step that is in its final stage of completion.

 He said that besides closely monitoring the attendance and infrastructure gaps the facility should give analytics about quality of teaching imparted and the scope of improvements that could be made by the department.  Dulloo stressed on developing both centralised and localised dashboards providing continuous and updated data insights on performance indicators of schools. He asked to empower the field level staff so as to make useful inferences from data for effective implementation of programs and schemes in vogue.

On the occasion, PD Samagra Shiksha, Rakesh Magotra, informed the Chief Secretary about the different components of the VSK established here. He informed that besides monitoring the attendance of both teachers and students it would provide analysis of results and learning outcomes of students in addition to the feedback from the students/parents. It will include dashboard about inspections conducted by different officers and their reports besides observations made about their visits. Besides, this would be a comprehensive IT based facility providing real time information about both the day to day activities happening in schools besides providing analysis about overall working of our schools’ functioning in J&K.

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A Profound Loss: JK Monitor Mourns the Passing of Founding Chairman Dr. Priya Ranjan

We at JK Monitor are profoundly saddened by the sudden demise of our Founding Chairman, Dr. Priya Ranjan.IN LOVING MEMORY Dr Priya Ranjan

A brilliant mind who studied at Netarhat Residential School and graduated in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur before earning his PhD from the University of Maryland, Dr. Ranjan chose to return to India and dedicate his life to teaching, research and social good.

His pioneering work in networked systems, AI, robotics and biomedical applications—especially computer-vision tools for early detection of cancer and heart disease—reflected his deep belief that advanced technology must serve humanity.

For more than 15 years at JK Monitor, he remained a loyal friend, mentor and collaborator, marked by rare humility, intellectual integrity and quiet generosity. His passing leaves a void that cannot be filled. Priya, you will be deeply missed. Your life continues to remind us that knowledge finds its highest purpose in the service of others.

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