The RFI cards, which are equipped with a device, will help parents to locate the movement of their wards while they are travelling to school from home and back.
Entrance of DPS Noida
Today when safety of school children is the flavour of all discussions, one cannot help lauding Delhi Public School, Greater Noida for issuing Radio Frequency Identification (RFI) cards to its students, a couple of months back.
The same safety initiative is now being embraced by Delhi Public School, Noida. According to authorised sources, the process of issuing radio frequency identification (RFI) cards has already begun.
“Students from class 1 to class 5 have come under the RFI system. And now the management is considering its decision of issuing these cards to the senior students, teachers and non-teaching staff,” informed an administrative staff.
The RFI cards, which are equipped with a device, will help parents to locate the movement of their wards while they are travelling to school from home and back. The administration has installed device reading machines at entry and exit gates of the school and in the entry doors of school buses.
Whenever students board or alight from the school bus, the device detects the radio frequency identification cards and quickly relays a text message to the registered mobile numbers of their parents.
The administration of DPS Noida, has recently issued a circular to inform parents about the functional state of the RFI system. The system will also alert the parent whenever his/her child gets of the bus in the middle of the journey. The installed detectors have a feature that automatically recognises the identity of the students. The circular states that in case a card is misplaced or lost, the parent needs to pay Rs 500 for a new card to be issued. The old missing card can also be replaced with a fresh one.
This safety measure has become very popular among parents across schools of Delhi NCR. Speaking to City Spidey, Niti Srivastava, a parent of a child who studies at DPS, Greater Noida said, “RFI cards are extremely useful as they help us in ascertaining the movement of our children. If there is a crime, parents will know the exact location in which the child was. I mean till the time that he/she was connected to the device.”
Vinod Nair, another parent whose children attend Khaitan Public School in Noida, claims that the parent fraternity has written to the school administration to adopt the RFI tracking technology.
Swati Sharma, yet another parent of a child studying at Lotus Valley School said that she had recently attended a meeting of parents and teachers, in which the school administration had proposed to launch a similar tracking system. Sharma said that the parents have unanimously proposed the RIF tracking system to which the administration has now consented.
