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UNIFIED DISTRICT INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR EDUCATION PLUS (UDISE+) 2020-21

KEY RESULTS – ALL INDIA

1. INTRODUCTION:

1.1. The Indian school Education System is one of the largest in the world with more than 15 lakh schools,

nearly 97 lakh teachers and nearly 26.5 Crore students1

of pre-primary to higher secondary level from

varied socio-economic backgrounds. The system strives to maintain standards and uniformity across

the country while giving ample scope for the country’s diverse culture and heritage to grow and

flourish.

1.2. A robust, real time and credible information collection mechanism is an essential prerequisite for an

objective evaluation of the system, based on which specific interventions for improvement can be

designed. In early 1990s, as part of the District Primary Education Programme (DPEP) national

endeavour, a school based computerized information system was designed and developed. Education

Management information System (EMIS), called the District Information System for Education

(DISE) was created for classes 1 to 5 for planning and monitoring the DPEP over 42 districts in 7

selected States. Over the years, this was expanded to cover the entire elementary education system in

India. In 2008-09, with the introduction of the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA), a

separate and dedicated Secondary Education Management Information System (SEMIS) was started

for classes 9 to 12. Subsequently, in 2012-13, the Unified District Information System for Education

(UDISE) was launched by integrating the DISE and SEMIS. The UDISE system thereafter became the

only source of data for the school education system with respect to schools, teachers and student

enrolment. Under the UDISE system, the schools used to feed the data manually at the school level in

paper version of the Data Capture Format (DCF) with reference date of 30th September of each year.

Thus, UDISE used to provide school-wise data on enrolment, physical infrastructure, teacher, etc.

These paper DCFs used to be computerized at block level or at district level, collated at State/UT level

and thereafter shared with the Central Government to build a national database.

1.3. With an aim to overcome the limitations of the UDISE system, the Department of School Education

Literacy (DoSEL) has developed the UDISE+ system with many unique features and introduced it

from the reference year 2018-19. Improvements have been made particularly in the areas related to

data capture, data mapping and data verification. Following field trials conducted in the schools and

on the basis of their inputs, the questions in the DCF have been redesigned so that they are simpler

and easier to understand. New questions have been included like pre-primary education, sports

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