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For further information about U-DISE activities, please contact:(Phone 91-11-26544-887, E-mail: arunmehta@nuepa.org)

Dr. Arun C. MehtaProfessor & Head

National University of Educational Planning and Administration

(Declared by the Government of India under Section 3 of the UGC act, 1956)

17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi-110016, (India)EPABX: 91-11-26544-847, 26544-800, Fax: 91-11-2685-3041, 2686-5180

Quality of Data

With an aim to further improve the quality and reliability of data, it has

been made mandatory for all the States & UTs to get the U-DISE data

sample checked by an independent agency from the year 2006-07

onwards, for which the NUEPA suggested the sampling methodology

and developed a special Data Capture Format for Post Enumeration

Survey. It is heartening to note that many states initiated random sample

checking of data, most of which are conducted by the monitoring

institutions identified for the states. In addition, Regional Technical

Workshops on Training and Capacity Building of State & District U-

DISE/MIS Coordinators were conducted recently. All these efforts

would not only help in improving the quality of data but would also help

in ensuring complete coverage.

Regional Technical Workshop on U-DISE

U-DISE: A Complete Transparent SystemSchool Report Cards

(www.schoolreportcards.in)

The National University has successfully developed School Report

Cards of more than 1.5 million schools/sections. In addition to

quantitative information, the Report Cards (available in English, Hindi

and other Regional languages) also provide qualitative information and a

descriptive report about individual schools. And, all that can now be

accessed with the click of a mouse. Even school-specific raw data has

also been provided online to users.

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. We hope that these reports are

used in constructive conversations which lead to improved education for

all children across the country.

School Report Cards help if you are an academician, it helps if you are a

policy maker, and it helps even if you are a common citizen.

U-DISE Annual Publications§ Elementary Education in India: Progress towards UEE, DISE Flash

Statistics

§ Elementary Education in India: Where do we stand?, District Report Cards, Volume I

§ Elementary Education in India: Where do we stand?, District Report Cards, Volume II

§ Elementary Education in Rural India: Analytical Tables

§ Elementary Education in Urban India: Analytical Tables

§ Elementary Education in India: Progress towards UEE, Analytical Tables

§ Elementary Education in India: Thematic Maps

§ Elementary Education in India: Graphic Presentation

§ Elementary Education in India: Trends

§ Secondary Education in India: Flash Statistics

§ Secondary Education in India: Thematic Maps

§ Secondary Education in India: Graphic Presentation

§ Secondary Education in India: Where do we stand? State Report Cards

U-DISE Annual Publications

Schoolreportcards.in wins e-Governance 2010 & eINDIA 2010 National Awards and Manthan Award South Asia 2010 & EMPI Indian Express Indian Innovation Award, 2012.

Recognising excellence inICTAWARDS2010INDIAeThe Award

DIGITAL INCLUSION FOR DEVELOPMENTSouth Asia & Asia Pacific

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th10 Joint Review Mission of SSAJuly 20 to 31, 2009

Government of India

§ The Mission would like to congratulate NUEPA & MHRD on the outstanding work that has gone into creating the country-wide District Information System for Education.

§ Happily, UDISE has maintained its steady progress to provide support. Appropriately, therefore, it has come to be recognized as the Official educational statistics system.

§ It is also hoped that NCERT will rise to the standards set by NUEPA's U-DISE web portal and develop robust system for both archiving the NAS data and making it available to the public through a public facing website.

§ Recognition of U-DISE as the Official database, as recommended in

previous JRMs, is an important step towards better reporting and reduction in data discrepancy for the purposes of program monitoring.

th5 Joint Review Mission of RMSA27 January to 9 February, 2015

Government of India

th4 Joint Review Mission of RMSA4 -12 August, 2015

Government of India

U-DISE Reporting Module

Variety of reports including indicators of internal efficiency of

education system; dropout, promotion and repetition rates, retention &

transition rates & a variety of other indicators having implications on

school education can be generated online at all levels, such as, national,

state, district, block & cluster levels.

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Percentage Distribution of Primary

only Schools having Enrolment 150 & Above

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2014-15

PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION OF

PRIMARY ONLY SCHOOLS HAVING

ENROLMENT 150 & ABOVE AND

HAVE HEAD MASTER/TEACHER

Dadra & Nagar Haveli

25.00

Himachal Pradesh

78.46

Jharkhand

17.14

Manipur

100.00

Jammu & Kashmir

36.51

Assam

69.67

Andaman & Nicobar Islands

0.00

Maharashtra

68.29

Andhra Pradesh

29.85

Karnataka

31.50

Daman & Diu

57.89

Gujarat

68.19

Chhattisgarh

50.71

Arunachal Pradesh

8.33

Bihar

21.42

Haryana

2.48

Chandigarh

40.00

Goa

37.50

Nagaland

60.94

Uttarakhand

73.05

Telengana

27.60

Puducherry

87.10

Tamil Nadu

84.47

Odisha

64.79

Meghalaya

62.63Madhya Pradesh

31.83

Mizoram

23.53

West Bengal

58.74

Sikkim

33.33

Uttar Pradesh

65.59

Rajasthan

60.85

Delhi

0.00

Punjab44.79

Kerala

92.06

Lakshadweep

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I N D I A

November, 2015

Introduction

The National University of Educational Planning and Administration has

created a comprehensive computer based system that provides researchers

and policy planners the tools required to evaluate all aspects of school

education in India known as Unified District Information System for

Education (U-DISE). The project covers primary, upper primary,

secondary and higher secondary schools/sections of all the 680 districts of

the country. What is more remarkable about U-DISE is that it has

drastically reduced the time-lag in availability of educational statistics

which is now down from 7-8 years to less than a year at the national and

only a few months at the district and state levels and there are no more data

gaps. Since Inception DISE at NUEPA is supported by the Ministry of

Human Resource Development and UNICEF.

Genesis and Evolution

Free and compulsory education to all children up to the age of fourteen

years is a constitutional commitment in India. For successful

implementation of any educational programme, effective monitoring and

an efficient information system are essential. Concerted efforts have been

made towards strengthening the Educational Management Information

System for school education in India.

Indian education system is one of the largest in the World as it caters to the

needs of more than 1,210 million people. At the time of initiating the

District Primary Education Programme (DPEP) in 1994-95, it was felt that

a sound information system was essential for successful monitoring and

implementation of the programme.

In view of the above, the MHRD in 1994-95, as part of the DPEP national

endeavor, decided to design and develop a School-based Computerized

Information System, and entrusted the responsibility to then National

Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA), New

Delhi, now National University of Educational Planning and

Administration (NUEPA). In this background, a pilot project for

revitalization of educational statistics in India was initiated at NUEPA in

1995 with financial assistance from the UNICEF. District was selected as

a nodal point for collection, computerization, analysis and use of school

level data. NUEPA designed and developed the core Data Capture

Formats (DCFs) and Software for implementation at the district level (in

case of primary level) and provided necessary technical and professional

support to all the DPEP districts and states. At the end of DPEP, DISE

could cover 272 districts across 18 DPEP states.

In the light of requirement of SSA not only the coverage of DISE was

extended to non-DPEP states but it was also extended to cover the entire

elementary level of education in 2001. Until 2012-13, Scope of DISE was

limited to Primary and Upper Primary levels of education. Thereafter, its

scope was expended to Secondary & Higher Secondary levels of

education. For the entire school education sector, U-DISE now have one

Data Capture Format, unique school identification code, one nodel officer

with a provision to print the DCF from the software and single data entry

point. The District Elementary as well as Secondary Education Plans

across the country are being developed primarily based on the data

generated through U-DISE.

NUEPA is committed to provide professional and software support to all

States & UTs as well as for dissemination and analysis of data as it is

provided by the individual States/UT. Data is being collected through the

SSA & RMSA machinery at Cluster, Block and District levels. The data

is supposed to be first cross-checked and validated at the cluster and block

Ø The U-DISE presents multi-user and module system of software design for better management and security of databases.

Ø Data can be exported to other formats for statistical analysis by users.

Ø Each School has given an 11 digit unique identification code and provision of printing DCF has been made available in U-DISE software itself.

Review Committee on Educational StatisticsØ It must be conceded that DISE does represent a significant

advancement over the earlier systems of data collection, compilation,

analyses and publication. In terms of reduction of time-lags and

improvement of quality, it represents a phenomenal stride over all

other systems.

Ø U-DISE can be said to have emerged as a time-tested 'model' to serve

educational statistics.Report of the Review Committee on

Educational Statistics, MHRD, Government of India, December 2008.

What Data is Available?

t DISE data is available both in raw and processed form at all desired levels and is being used in a variety of ways.

t The detailed time-series data on school location, management, rural-urban, enrolment, facilities, buildings, equipment, incentives, mediums of instruction, children and disabilities, examination results and student flows are made available at desegregated levels.

t Detailed data on individual teachers, contractual-teachers, community teachers and their profile, including data on in-service training received, is available through U-DISE at School, Cluster, Block, District, State and National levels.

t A variety of indicators failing under all the four components of universal school education are made available in ready to use form at all desegregated levels.

t U-DISE has adopted effective dissemination policy and data is easily available to users in the form of District and State Report Cards, education in Rural and Urban India, Flash Statistics, Analytical Tables, Thematic Maps & Graphic Presentation.

t Elementary Education in India, Trends: 2005-06 to 2014-15, a new publication presents trends on key indicators concerning different aspects of Universal School Education.

A view from Orientation Programme on U-DISE Data Capture Format through EDUSAT at IGNOU, New Delhi.

level and then at the district and state level. CRC co-ordinators are made

accountable to ensure that data is consistent and there are no missing

values and coverage of schools covered under U-DISE is complete. An

interactive programme on U-DISE through EDUSAT is being

organized in September each year; which also has helped in further

improving the quality of data. Data entry across the Country takes place

mostly at the block level, where computer professionals have been

provided exclusively for work related to MIS activities.

Major Outcome of U-DISE Efforts

Ø Through the concerted efforts, the MIS Unit is now operational at the block, district and state levels and is equipped with necessary hardware and software.

Ø The U-DISE has eliminated data gaps as comprehensive information is now available on all aspects of universal school education including RTE parameters at different levels. U-DISE has completely eliminated time-lag in the availability of educational statistics.

Ø O ffi c i a l w e b s i t e s o f t h e U - D I S E ( w w w. d i s e . i n & www.schoolreportcards.in) have been developed and hosted in-house & is being updated regularly.

Ø To ensure that server function properly, a state of the art 'data centre' along with a dedicated room with adequate number of working stations has been exclusively developed for U-DISE at NUEPA.�

The U-DISE Software: Main Features

U-DISE is user-friendly, menu-driven, time-tested and error-free software with no scope for manipulation and in being used through out the country in more than 680 districts. The main features of the software are:

Ø The System covers twelve years of schooling in all recognized primary, upper primary, secondary and higher secondary schools/sections.

Ø Manual aggregation of data at different levels is completely replaced by computerized data entry and report generation system.

Ø The concept and definitions of educational variables involved therein have been standardized at the national level and are uniformly followed by all districts and states.

Ø The states have flexibility of adding supplementary variables depending upon their local-specific requirements. No additional software for computerization and analysis is required.

Unified District Information System for Education(U-DISE)

Flow of Information

NUEPA/TSG of MHRD

State Project Office

National/State/DistrictReports U-DISE Database

State/District Reports U-DISE Database

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