In a bid to monitor the progress of over 200 million children across the country, the HRD ministry is all set to introduce a child tracking system that would not only follow the improvement of the chi
In a bid to monitor the progress of over 200 million children across the country, the HRD ministry is all set to introduce a child tracking system that would not only follow the improvement of the child from one class to another but will also identify drop outs to take appropriate action.
Taking to twitter, Union HR minister Smriti Irani said in a series of tweets: “Introducing a child tracking system for over 200 million children all across the country to track movement class to class, identify drop outs.” In another tweet, Ms Irani said that due to Right to Education, the concept of bridge schools was discontinued “which disabilitated the entrance of out-of-school children into the school system (sic).”
Apart from this, Ms Irani said that rather than monitoring the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, the programme for the achievement of universalisation of elementary education, annually as was done during the UPA, her ministry would track it online daily.
“We did mid-term review online. This year we shall track SSA daily online. Real time data will help engage productively with states,” she said, adding, “Sarva Siksha Abhiyaan under UPA regime was monitored once a year and was not facilitating solutions real time.”
The minister also announced the development of an expenditure portal that centralises various sources of school education data in India. She also mentioned a first of its kind portal for teacher education institutions which will ensure transparency and grading.
Ms Irani said her ministry is supporting states to help build composite schools by rationalising stand-alone schools with low enrolment and one teacher, besides announcing that the National Assessment Survey, which was done once in three years by NCERT, will now be done annually. “Smaller schools are either mentored by larger schools in same geographical area or are merged in the interest of students,” she tweeted.
NAS, henceforth, will be competency-based, she said in a tweet, adding that states are to do assessment in all schools from Classes 1 to 8. “Learning outcome portal being designed by NCERT which will have videos so that outcomes are easily comprehended in tests voluntarily taken (sic),” she tweeted.
In another message, Ms Irani mentioned said the Shala Siddhi scheme of her ministry will be extended to all schools.
