UDISE+ Report

Why in News?

Recently, the Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) Report enrolment data has stayed around 26 crores.

• UDISE+ Report – It is a report from Unified District Information System for Education Plus initiative.
• Prepared by – Department of School Education & Literacy (DoSE&L).
• Released by – Ministry of Education (MoE).
• Based on – Voluntary uploading of data by the schools having active UDISE+ codes.
• UDISE+ code – It is allotted to a recognized school by the Central Government based on the recommendation of the respective State/UT Government where the school is located.

The School Education system in India is one of the largest in the world comprising more than 1.47 million schools, 9.8 million teachers, and over 248 million students from varied socio-economic backgrounds.

UDISE+ Report 2023-2024

• It had the cutoff date as on 31^st March 2024.
• It is in alignment with the recommendations of National Education Policy, 2020 (NEP 2020).
• It focuses on individual student for the 1^st time at the national level.
• Coverage – It covers all States /UTs except Tamil Nadu and West Bengal as they both directly feed data into UDISE+ portal of DoSE&L.
• Data collection – More than 19.7 crore students provided Aadhaar numbers voluntarily.

TamilNadu and West Bengal are the two States that maintains their own Management Information Systems (MIS) and provides bulk data link to UDISE+ portal of DoSE&L.

• Total enrolment – 24.8 Crore, a drop over by 1 crore from 2018-19.
• It includes a drop in enrolment of both boys and girls students.
• Drop in enrolment - Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra saw among the highest drop in enrolments.

Reference

The Hindu| UDISE+ Report