Nashik's online platform to track and monitor the all-round progress of government school students, the Students' Academic Profiling System (SAPS), is yet to take off.

According to a report in the Times of India, the zilla parishad administration was to launch it in January but ever since the transfer of the district officials whose pet project SAPS was, it has been in limbo.

"SAPS, the brainchild of former district collector P Velrasu, was supposed to be launched in January 2013. But the programme is still locked at the block resource centre level as the database of children has not yet been keyed into the system," chief executive officer of the ZP, Nashik Ranjitkumar, told the paper.

SAPS has been designed as a web-based platform on which the report cards of all students in Class I are uploaded. The data entered for each child (with an unique identity) is then updated periodically, till Class VIII. The record will pertain not only to academic performance, but also cover a student's behavioral aspects, interpersonal skills and subjects of keen interest.

"The respective teachers, parents and guardians will be able to watch the development of child and take measures, if needed, to improve upon his weak points," one of the senior officials from the education department told the newspaper.

The officer explained that the project, prepared at a cost of Rs 20 lakh, lost steam after the transfer of the concerned officials, including the collector.

The staff has been trained to keep note of students who show exceptional records in behavioral patterns. Now these details have to be keyed in with the Block Education officer. The same will be uploaded on the website.