Updated: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 02:00 (IST) Negligence in registering the digital attendance of students has come to light in the board schools of Uttar Pradesh. Only 16.79% attendance was recorded out of 1.28 crore students in 1.32 lakh schools. The attendance was highest in Mirzapur division and lowest in Devipatan. Principals have been given strict instructions to update attendance daily on the Prerna portal. State Bureau, Lucknow. Negligence has come to light in registering the digital attendance of students on the Prerna portal in the board schools of the state. According to the State Project Office report, a total of 1,28,98,383 students have been registered in 1,32,830 board schools of the state, but till October 15, the attendance of only 21,65,138 students has been registered on the Prerna portal, which is only 16.79 percent of the total number. Remove advertisement Just read the news Among the 18 divisions of the state, the situation of Mirzapur division was the best, where the attendance of 54.99 percent students was recorded, while in Devipatan division this figure remained very low at 0.61 percent. The State Project Office has given clear instructions to all the principals and headmasters to update the attendance of their school students daily on the Prerna portal. Warned that the attendance of students will be reviewed by the Chief Minister Dashboard from next month, so all schools will have to ensure 100% digital attendance. It was said in the order that there will be no negligence of any kind in this work. If there is no attendance on Prerna portal, liability will be established. Mandal wise attendance of children on digital register Mandal School Total children attendance percentage Agra 7,768 54,58,82 1,22,453 22.43 Aligarh 6,318 50,82,86 1,44,400 28.41 Ayodhya 85,202 6,602 6,402 24.07 Azamgarh 6,164 5,89,820 45,434 7.70 Bareilly 8,882 9,82,369 25,343 2.58 Basti 5,585 4,76,810 8,048 1.69 Chitrakoot 4,794 4,53,0129 3,53,0129 Depat. 8,224 11,00,039 6,713 0.61 Gorakhpur 8,800 7,82,332 26,144 3.34 Jhansi 4,280 3,40,032 10,104 2.97 Kanpur 9,419 6,63,459 69,904 10,54 10.54 Lucknow 817, 64, 517, 3,78,922 21.50 Meerut 4,936 5,39,184 1,52,582 28.30 Mirzapur 4,769 58,12,280 3,19,626 54.99 Moradabad 7,732 6,90,204 24,497 3.55 Prayagraj 8.452 8.459 8.459 50.19 Saharanpur 3,018 3,46,692 18,591 5.36 Varanasi 7,401 8,39,412 1,34,125 15.98 Grand Total 1,00,016 1,54,39,503 14,26,136 ~15,87 Protesters in the entire district of India. against the increasing atrocities against Dalits. Party state secretary Comrade Arvind Raj Swaroop said that atrocities against Dalits had increased during the tenure of the BJP government. In this context, CPI workers demonstrated in the districts and submitted a memorandum addressed to the President to the district administration.
UP News: Digital attendance of 16.79 percent children, negligence in registering attendance on Prerna portal – low digital attendance in upper primary schools only 1679 recorded
