India, Sept. 26 -- Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE Plus), a portal to track students' strength and assign the number of teachers to government schools, has been facing technical glitches, not allowing schools to update the strength before the September 30 deadline. This is a claim made by teachers' associations, who wrote to the state government on Wednesday, requesting that it intervene and resolve the issue at the earliest.

The number of teachers sanctioned for each government school is determined based on student enrolment figures available on the UDISE portal as of September 30. Several schools across the state claim that the portal is not allowing them to add new admissions, raising concerns of inaccura...