An attempt has been made in the present article to make data users aware downloading of UDISE+ data from the NIEPA & UDISE+ data portals concerning School Education Samagra Shiksha in India.
As we know that
Unified District Information System
for Education or Unified-DISE/U-DISE is the
main source of information on educational statistics and is currently being
managed by the Department of School
Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education, Government of India
with effect from the year 2018-19 onwards before which it was initiated and
managed by one of the apex educational planning institutions and technical arm
of the Ministry of Education, namely the National Institute (University) of Educational Planning and
Administration (NIEPA/NUEPA), New Delhi for the
period from 1994-95 to 2017-18.
In this note, details of data available, how to
download a publication or a set of data, and the level at which the same is
available are explained which the young researchers/scholars would find useful.
Apart from the UDISE+, there is no other source of information on school
education on regular basis. However, the Census of India, NSSO,
NFHS,
and All India
School Education Survey (AISES) are also
used to disseminate information on educational variables occasionally. The
latest AISES as a part of its Eight
Survey was conducted in the year 2008-09. NCERT is also used
to conduct the National
Achievement Survey (NAS), the first of which was
conducted in 2017, and the latest, second NAS was conducted recently in
November 2021 details of which are now disseminated on its official
website.
DISE at NIEPA was
initiated by Late Prof. Yashpal Aggarwal which later took it to new heights and
nurtured by Prof. Arun
C Mehta from 2002 to 2017 (January) and the same was located
in the Department of Educational Management Information
System (EMIS) of NIEPA, New Delhi.
Professor Mehta was the founder Head of
the Department (HoD) and incidentally, the last HoD of the EMIS Department. During
his tenure, DISE scaled new heights and got recognized as the Official Statistics by the Government of
India, and received several prestigious awards.
However,
the real hero of the whole exercise towards strengthening educational
statistics was the district, block, and state
MIS Coordinators from across the Country as well as the Cluster and Block
Resource Coordinators and the respondents, the School Head Masters, teachers,
and principals all who contributed significantly towards strengthening
educational statistics in the Country; their contribution
is immense and must be recognized and rewarded. Many of the
programmers, data entry operators, and state and district In-charge of
EMIS/DISE/UDISE+ have got vast experience managing EMIS at their level are contractual
and low salaried, and must be acquired in the state services as and when such
opportunities are there; they are the state assets and their services must be
adequately used at all levels. While strengthening UDISE, many of them have now
become age-bar and has no opportunity elsewhere. Needless to
say that the school education plans across the Country under the umbrella of SSA,
RMSA,
and now under the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan are
formulated based on the UDISE data
to which our friends had immensely contributed.
Posts
