School Report Cards (www.schoolreportcards.in) under District Information System for Education (DISE) jointly developed by the National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA, New Delhi) and Department of School Education and Literacy, Union Ministry of HRD has been awarded the prestigious e-Governance 2009-10 National Award under the Category Special Sectoral Award - Focus Sector - Education. The award is given every year by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, Union Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions.

 

            District Information System for Education (DISE) developed by NUEPA, New Delhi under implementation in all the districts of the country is the monitoring tool of the Government’s flagship programme, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. All the District Elementary Education Plans under SSA are being based on data generated through DISE annually. For the year 2008-09, 1.3 million schools have been covered under DISE which has been received from 70,000 clusters, 7,000 blocks and 633 districts spread over 35 States and Union Territories of the Country. A set of seven publications are being brought out by NUEPA every year all which are based on the DISE Data.  The project covers both Primary and Upper Primary schools of all the districts of the country. DISE  has completely eliminated the time-lag in availability of educational statistics which has come down drastically from 7-8 years to less than a year at the national and only a few months at the district and state levels. DISE at NUEPA is supported by the Ministry of Human Resource Development and UNICEF.

 

            The National University has successfully developed School Report Cards of more than 1.30 million Primary and Upper Primary schools which are available online (www.schoolreportcards.in) . In addition to quantitative information, the Report Cards also provide qualitative information and a descriptive report about individual schools.  The Report Cards are produced to provide users comprehensive information on all the vital parameters, be it student, teacher or school related variables, yet concise, accurate information about each school in a standard format which is easy to understand and allows meaningful comparisons to be made among schools.  A number of scholars from across the World are exclusively working on DISE data.

 

More information can be obtained from www.dise.in and www.schoolreportcards.in