Assam | Database of 342 schools to be recorded by UDISE in Hailakandi

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Hailakandi, July 26, 2019:

The data collection for the Unified District Information on School Education (UDISE) 2018-19 will take some time as the process is still underway for this year.

In Hailakandi district, few schools have had received UDISE Code which do not exist physically or are not running as per reports received from the block elementary education officers.

Deputy Commissioner, Keerthi Jalli, also the Chairman of District Level Redressal Committee in an order issued on Thursday said in case of any genuine claim by the headmaster/headteacher of any school, application may be filed in the Office of the District Mission Coordinator, Sarba Sikhsha Abhiyan with relevant documents duly authenticated and countersigned by the respective BEEOs within 30 days failing which UDISE code stands automatically cancelled.

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342 venture schools have been identified in the district.

Inspector of Schools, Rajiv Kumar Jha said UDISE Plus is a key concept to policy decisions on the education of the young.

The Centre took over from a think tank the annual data survey of school infrastructure and made it an entirely online process.

The National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, an expert body on data collection, processing, and analysis, handled the project during the past two decades. The think tank started collecting the data from the states by September 30 and completed the job by May.

By August, statistics about teacher vacancies and infrastructure — toilets, drinking water, labs, libraries — across the country’s 15.53 lakh government and private schools were out, setting the stage for decisions on funding for the states.

The department of school education and literacy, under the human resource development ministry, decided to take it over last October from the public-funded think tank.

The department asked all the schools to feed the data online. The think tank used to secure the data through the states, whom it allowed to collect the information offline from schools and send it along in a computerized form, through database files or CDs.

But the school education department decided that getting the data directly from the schools would eliminate any distortion by state authorities and produce more authentic results — the key reason for the government taking over the project, said an official.