One day, the headmaster announced, "The government has launched the Shala Arth (School Finance & Management) system. Everything—student records, scholarships, and teacher transfers—will now be done online at www.shalarth.maharashtra.gov.in ."

Mrs. Deshmukh was nervous. She had seen the website but didn't know her login details.

In a bustling school in Pune, Mrs. Deshmukh , a 9th-grade teacher, used to spend hours manually filling out student attendance, exam marks, and caste validation forms. Every month, she had to carry heavy registers to the block education office.

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