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Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) has developed a mobile app, Activity Point Tracking System (APTS), to curb the unethical signifier of engineering students submitting fake documents for enactment points.
All students volition person to download this app and upload geo-tagged photos of their other curricular activities, which volition gain them enactment points.
The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) started awarding enactment points from 2018-19 for other curricular activities. Students person to gain astatine slightest 75 retired of 100 enactment points successful their four-year engineering people to get their degree. The database of activities a pupil tin prosecute successful to get enactment points is designed to make entrepreneurial capabilities with societal commitment, make brushed skills, enactment qualities, and squad tone among others.
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The students indispensable taxable the documents oregon photos to their mentors arsenic impervious of information successful activities. However, immoderate students misused this by submitting documents without really participating.
“According to the AICTE rules, students indispensable gain enactment points done their other curricular activities. However, immoderate students misused this by submitting fake documents and photographs. To forestall specified unethical practices, we decided to usage the exertion and curb it. We successfully tested the app, and it volition beryllium launched soon,” said S. Vidyashankar, Vice-Chancellor, VTU.
The APTS app has been developed successful collaboration with Youth for Seva and Life Cycle Sports Pvt. Ltd. The students indispensable participate implicit details of the activities they participated in. They indispensable besides upload the geo-tagged photos and certificate of the schoolhouse oregon organisation concerned. The app volition grounds however galore hours they spent successful the activity.
