{"id":1000797,"date":"2026-04-02T09:09:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1000797"},"modified":"2026-04-02T10:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:38:14","slug":"otp-overload-sparks-chaos-delhi-principals-slam-new-education-department-portal-as-burden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/02\/otp-overload-sparks-chaos-delhi-principals-slam-new-education-department-portal-as-burden\/","title":{"rendered":"OTP overload sparks chaos; Delhi principals slam new Education Department portal as \u2018burden\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: A newly revamped website introduced by the Education Department to streamline school administration has instead sparked widespread frustration among school principals, who say the platform\u2019s excessive reliance on OTPs is disrupting their daily functioning. <\/p>\n<p>According to several principals, the portal now requires OTP verification for almost every task, from marking attendance and uploading documents to sending official emails and registering information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: A newly revamped website introduced by the Education Department to streamline school administration has instead sparked widespread frustration among school principals, who say the platform\u2019s excessive reliance on OTPs is disrupting their daily functioning. According to several principals, the portal now requires OTP verification for almost every task, from marking attendance and uploading documents to sending official emails and registering information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}