kochi parents of government school students in kerala can now rest easy thanks to rfid technology that would allow them to track the movement of their wards at school know whether they reached on time or skipped classes and what portions are being taught each day pr 9 communication a kochibased it firm has inked an agreement with palakkad municipality and kochi corporation to provide an rfidbased parentstudentteacher interface at palakkad government girls high school the secondlargest school in terms of student strength and government ghss ernakulam the plan is to extend the service to other government schools and state governments information kerala mission ikm which had rolled out a pilot project of sending smss to parents regarding their wards attendance in thiruvananthapuram and kollam will provide necessary facilities the gates of the schools will be converted into an rfid readerwithin three seconds of a student passing the school gate parents will get an sms regarding their presence at school we are using the cloud nine servers so as to optimize the efficiency and ensure quick notification additionally progress reports and important messages like the declaration of a holiday at short notice will go to the mobile or email of parents we are in talks with other government schools and they are at different stages said sajeesh gopalan md of pr 9 communication corporation authorities said that the project is likely to be implemented next month we decided to implement the project in the backdrop of student missing cases and girl children being trapped by antisocials the estimated cost is around rs 18 lakh there are nearly 2700 students in that particular school said r thyagarajan chairman of corporations standing committee for education the schools management systems pilot project in 32 schools in thiruvananthapuram and kollam works in the following manner the teacher manually registers the attendance and records the details in the login id allotted to him or heronce recorded in the computer network an sms will be automatically be generated to the cell numbers of each parent now we plan to provide email ids for parents once the system is in place parents can check the details such as attendance progress reports and portions for each day we have also plans to monitor kids while they are traveling in school buses said ikm executive director c p suresh kumar though most of the government schools have computers and internet connectivity the quality is far from optimal we have instructed school authorities to secure good computers and basic facilities for the project on our part we have a new server and there wont any problem from our side said ikms technical officer in ernakulam basil das