To keep a beware of the rising number of dropouts from state-run schools, the Maharashtra government has chosen to receive the "selfie" course, wherein instructors will need to transfer classroom pictures, each involving a gathering of 10 understudies denoting their participation.

As per an government resolution (GR) discharged by the State Education Ministry on Thursday the "selfies" alongside Aadhar numbers and name of understudies must be transferred to the SARAL framework, which handles instruction database for the state government.

This activity might be actualized from January one year from now where each selfie ought to have 10 understudies. It is gone for making a record of the understudies who are not customary to schools, the GR said.

Instructors are relied upon to transfer the photographs of the considerable number of understudies on the initial two Mondays after the drive is propelled. Teachers ought to advise the higher dominant presences in the instruction office about the understudies who are sporadic. The authorities will as of now have the subtle elements of the unpredictable understudies, and henceforth can take some arrangement choices to take them back to class, the GR said.

As per the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), 2014 the dropout rate in Maharashtra has been around 9%, as against 15% across the nation.

The State Education office has additionally distinguished another two classifications, because of which understudies drop out. These are when families relocate inside the state and when families move base to Maharashtra. In both the cases a few understudies get dropped out, the GR said.

The guardians, who are moving base inside the state, have been approached to make interchange game plans for their school-going youngsters so they don't lose track. The kids can remain with their excellent guardians or in brief inns.

It will be the duty of the schools to discover such understudies, transfer their data on SARAL and impart it to instruction chief and key secretary of the training office.

Then again, if a few understudies need to move, then 'Instruction Guarantee Card', ought to be issued to them. It can be sent to the school organization through WhatsApp, where the understudy is being moved, the GR expressed.