Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE) 2021-22 Report

Subject: Governance

Context:

The Ministry of Education has released a detailed report recently on Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) 2021-22 on school education of India.

What is UDISE+:

It is one of the largest Management Information Systems on school education and was launched in 2018-2019 to speed up data entry, reduce errors, improve data quality and ease its verification.
It is an application to collect the school details about factors related to a school and its resources.
It is an updated and improved version of UDISE, which was initiated in 2012-13 by the Ministry of Education.
It covers more than49 million schools, more than 9.5 million teachers and more than 265 million children.
It helps measure the education parameters from classes 1 to 12 in government and private schools across India.
In UDISE+ 2021-22, additional data on important indicators like digital library, peer learning, hard spot identification, number of books available in school library, etc have been collected for the first time to align with the National Education Policy 2020 initiatives.

What UDISE+ School Data Capture:

UDISE+ has the mandate of collecting information from all schools imparting formal education from Classes I to XII.
In UDISE+ school acts as the unit of data collection and district as the unit of data distribution.
It collects information on school profile, physical infrastructure, teachers, enrolments, examination results through an online Data Collection Form (DCF).
The DCF is divided into eleven sections and each section contains multiple questions to capture various performance indicators of the school.

What is in the latest report:

According to the report, Gross Enrollment Ratio has improved at primary, upper primary, and higher secondary levels of school education in 2021-22 as compared to 2020-21.
GER in higher secondary schools has made a significant improvement from 8 percent in 2021-21 to 57.6 percent in 2021-22.
In 2021-22, the Pupil Teacher Ratio stood at 26 for primary, 19 for upper primary, 18 for secondary, and 27 for higher secondary showing an improvement since 2018-19.
In 2021-22, over29 crore girls are enrolled in primary to higher secondary showing an increase of 8.19 lakh as compared to the enrolment of girls in 2020-21.
More than 20,000 schools were closed across the country during 2020-21 while the number of teachers also declined by 1.95% in comparison to the previous year.
It pointed out that only85% of schools had computer facilities while nearly 34% had internet connection.
While only 27% schools have special toilets for children with special needs while more than 49% of them have ramps with handrails