New
Delhi: School report cards 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 Human Resource and Development (MHRD)
has been awarded the prestigious
e-Governance 2009-10 national award
under the category Special Sectoral
Award - Focus Sector - Education.
The Department of Administrative
Reforms and Public Grievances, Union
Ministry of Personnel, Public
Grievances and Pensions give the award
every year.
The NUEPA has successfully developed
school report cards of more than 1.30
million primary and upper primary
schools, which are available online.
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.
DISE developed by NUEPA under
implementation in all the districts of
the country is the monitoring tool of
the government's flagship programme,
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA). All the
district elementary education plans
under SSA are based on data generated
through DISE annually.
According to an official press
release, for the year 2008-09, 1.3
million schools have been covered
under DISE 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 of
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 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. The MHRD and UNICEF support
DISE at NUEPA.
A number of scholars from across the
world are exclusively working on DISE
data.
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