Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) 2020-21

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    • The Ministry of Education released a detailed report on Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) 2020-21 on school education in India.

    About the report

    • Department of School Education & Literacy: in the year 2018-19 developed the UDISE+ system of online data collection from the school.
    • Aim: It aims to overcome the issues related to erstwhile practice of manual data filling in paper format.
    • Usage: UDISE+ system has been developed specially in the areas related to data capture, data mapping and data verification.

    Key Findings of the Report

    • Students in schools
      • In 2020-21 total students enrolled in school education from primary to higher secondary stood at 25.38 crore.
      • There is an increase of 28.32 lakh enrolments as compared to the 25.10 crore enrolment in 2019-20.
      • Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) which measures the general level of participation has improved in 2020-21 at all levels of school education compared to 2019-20.
      • Level wise GER in 2020-21 as compared to 2019-20 are:  92.2% from 89.7% in upper primary, 99.1 % from 97.8% in elementary, 79.8% from 77.9% in secondary and 53.8% from 51.4% in higher secondary respectively.
    • Teachers in Schools
      • 96.96 lakh teachers are engaged in school education during 2020-21. This is higher by about 8800 in comparison with the number of teachers in school education in 2019-20.
      • In 2020-21 the Pupil Teacher Ratio (PTR) stood at 26 for primary, 19 for upper primary, 18 for secondary and 26 for higher secondary, showing an improvement since 2018-19.
      • The PTR for primary, upper primary, secondary and higher secondary was 28, 20, 21, and 30 respectively during 2018-19.
    • Data on Girls
      • In 2020-21 over 12.2 crore girls are enrolled in primary to higher secondary showing  an increase of 11.8 lakh girls compared to the enrolment of girls in 2019-20.
    • Non-teaching staffs
      • The number of non-teaching staff has also improved over the years.
      • Total non teaching staff during 2020-21 stood at 15.8 lakh as compared to 12.37 lakhs in 2018-19.
      • Among the non-teaching staff, the number of accountants, library assistants, laboratory assistants, head clerks, and LDC/UDC staff has grown from 5.79 lakh to 7.8 lakh by adding 2.05 lakh from 2018-19 to 2020-21.
    • School Infrastructure
      • Schools with functional electricity have made impressive progress during 2020-21 with a net addition of 57,799 schools provided electricity.
      • Now 84% of the total schools have functional electricity facilities in comparison with 73.85% in 2018-19 showing remarkable improvement of 10.15% during the period.
      • Percentage of the schools with functional drinking water has increased to 95.2 % in 2020-21 from 93.7 % in 2019-20.
      • Percentage of the school with a functional girl’s toilet facility has increased to 93.91 % in 2020-21 in comparison with 93.2 % in 2019-20 by adding the facility in additional 11,933 schools during the year.
      • Number of schools having functional computers increased to 6 lakh in 2020-21 from 5.5 lakh in 2019-20.
      • Number of schools having internet facilities increased to 3.7 lakh in 2020-21 from 3.36 lakh in 2019-20 with an increase of 2.6%.
    • Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on enrolment
      • During 2020-21, 39.7 lakh students of government aided, private school students shifted to Government schools.

    Potential Benefits of UDISE+

    • Enables real-time exchange of information and provides a platform for online uploading of school related details (UDISE+ data).
    • Provides a platform to organize and classify all school data across the country, and build a credible database of school data.
    • Provides unique UDISE code to schools to uniquely identify them.
    • Improved monitoring, measurement and tracking of vital KPIs related to school performance.
    • Enables leveraging data analytics on school data to identify factors affecting school performances.
    • Time-series data allows studying the trend over years and monitoring improvement/growth.
    • Rationalizes the capturing of school data – improves consistency and reduces error.
    • Provides traceability and audit trails of officials uploading the school data, Provides improved security of the sensitive school/student data.
    • Provides improved security of the sensitive school/student data.
    • Provides insights on the status of school education in states/UTs including key performance levers and areas for improvement.

    About UDISE:

    • Ministry: UDISE was initiated in 2012-13 by the Ministry of Education by integrating DISE for elementary education and SEMIS for secondary education.
    • Unified District Information on School Education (UDISE) is one of the largest Management Information Systems on school education.
    • Purpose: It helps measure the education parameters from classes 1 to 12 in government and private schools across India.
    • UDISE+ is an updated and improved version of UDISE.
      • It was developed in the year 2018-19 to speed up data entry, reduce errors, improve data quality and ease its verification.

    Source: PIB

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