New Delhi: Govt schools across the capital are grappling with major administrative disruptions, with the Directorate of Education (DoE) website remaining inaccessible for nearly a month. The outage has not only stalled day-to-day work for school staff but also left parents anxious during the ongoing nursery admission cycle, with key information unavailable online. Teachers, principals and officials said the prolonged outage has stalled key processes, affecting attendance updates, financial approvals, internal file movement and access to official circulars.
General secretary of the Govt School Teachers Association Ajay Veer Yadav said schools were finding it increasingly difficult to manage routine work. “From attendance to official correspondence and file movement, everything depends on the DoE website. With the portal down for nearly a month, routine administrative work has been severely affected,” he said. Yadav added that the DoE now operates on a fully paperless model. “We shifted completely to e-filing. When the website is down, schools are forced to rely on stopgap measures like WhatsApp,” he said. Parents said the blackout has affected transparency during the ongoing nursery admission season. One parent said they were unable to view admission criteria and school-wise information. “We cannot see the rules that are usually uploaded online. We also wanted to check which schools updated their details, but that is not possible right now. This lack of access affects clarity in the admission process,” the parent said. Teachers said the outage has also cut off access to circulars, policy updates and departmental orders. A govt school principal said the prolonged downtime has impacted preparedness. “It affects our planning and adds pressure on staff already busy with academic and administrative responsibilities,” the principal said. A school administrative official said that the prolonged outage could be linked to a planned revamp of the portal, though no formal communication has been issued by DoE. At the time of filing this report, the website remained inaccessible. DoE did not respond to TOI’s queries.
