MANAGEMENT, MONITORING AND EVALUATION
Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) 15.1.1 The Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) consisting of Education Ministers from States, Administrators, Educationists and Academicians continued to be the national level body providing vital inputs for the management of education policy - by reviewing trends in the education sector, analysing implementation of programmes and advising on policy prescriptions.
15.1.2 The CABE was re-constituted on 19th October, 1990 for a period of three years. The re-constituted CABE met in New Delhi on 8th and 9th March, 1991. The meeting deliberated upon various major policy matters in the areas of elementary education, secondary education, adult education, technical education and education of the disadvantaged sections like SCs, STs, etc.
15.1.3 The CABE made valuable recommendations in several areas of education including
- resources for education,
- centrally sponsored schemes,
- processing of the Reports of the Ramamurti commit- tee and the Gnanam Committee,
- prescription of Minimum Levels of Learning,
- micro-planning for universalisation of elementary education,
- restoration of academic calendar,
- adult literacy and vocationalisation of educational opportunities.
Meeting of State Education Secretaries and Directors of Education
15.2.0 A conference of Education Secretaries and Directors of Education of States and Union Territories was held in New Delhi on 7th March, 1991. In this conference various issues relating to elementary education including teacher education, vocationalisation of secondary education, adult education including literacy campaigns, higher education and technical education were discussed.
Review of National Policy on Education 1986. On 7th May, 1990 a Committee was appointed under the chairmanship of Acharya Ramamurti to review the National Policy on
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Education and its implementation (NPERC), and, also, to make recommendations regarding revision of the Policy. The Committee submitted its report to the Government on 26th December, 1990. The recommendations cover the entire spectrum of education policy. Copies of the report were laid on the Tables of both the Houses of Parliament on 9th January, 1991. The CABE in its meeting held on 8th & 9th March, 1991 considered the manner in which the report should be processed, and has decided to set up a Committee to examine the recommendations indepth.
Educational Statistics 15.4.1 The 15th meeting of the -Standing Committee on Educational Statistics was held on 17.12.90. The Committee reviewed the progress of work undertaken by the Statistics Unit of the Department of Education during the year.
15.4.2 The Ministry organised two Regional Training Programmes at Madras and Agartala on 24-26 October, 1990 and 15-17 January, 1991 for the benefit of statistical staff of Southern and North Eastern States respectively.
15.4.3 The following publications on Educational Statistics were brought out during the year under report:
1. Selected Education Statistics 1988-89
2. Education in India - 1980-81 - Vol.II
3. Education in India - 1981-82 - Vol.II
4. Education in India - 1982-83 - Vol.II
5. Education in India - 1983-84 - Vol.II
6. Education in India - 1980-81 - Vol.III
7. Education in India - 1981-82 - Vol.III
8. Selected Information on School Education 1988-89.
15.4.4 Timelag in publication of data has been reduced by more than one year after introducing computerisation at the Centre. The same is expected after implementation of the Central Plan Scheme on "Computerisation of Educational Statistics in States." This scheme was launched during the year 1989 in nine educationally backward States viz., Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Under this scheme computerised data-base on School Education will be created to generate the Annual statistics of education relating to the year 1988-89/1989- 90 for these States. Further, the created data-base will be used to analyse the enrolment trends in school education at Central, State and District levels.
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15.4.5 Arrangements have already been tied up for computerised processing of data with the help of the respective Regional/State Centres of NIC. Hyderabad Centre of National Informatics Centre has already developed a software for the generation of the required statistical reports. Two Workshops were also organised by the Hyderabad Centre to demonstrate the software developed by them for the benefit of the officers of the concerned State/Regional Centres of NIC and the Statistical Officers from State Education Departments during October 1990 and December 1990.
15.4.6 The required data in the prescribed computerised form S1,S- 2, S-3 and B have already been collected from three States/UTs and the computerised processing has also started. For the remaining six States, the data collection is likely to be completed during 1991 and the final results are expected by the end of 1991.
15.4.7 The Ministry deputed its officers as Resource Personnel for the conduct of training programmes on Educational Statistics organised by the State Governments of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh for the benefit of statistical staff working at District level.
Development of a Computerised Management Information System (CMIS)
for the Department 15.5.0 With a view to accelerating the growth of Computerised Management Information System and creation of expertise within the Department, a CMIS unit within the Planning, Monitoring and Statistics Division was created in September, 1985. Since its creation, this unit has been engaged in developing Computerised Management Information System in the Ministry in collaboration with NIC.
15.5.1 At present, this Unit is equipped with two personal Computers PC/XT and PC/AT with two dot-matrix printers and one letter quality printer. It has been proposed to augment the PC/AT with four more terminals and install additional PCs and Laser Printer for the Unit in the Eighth Five Year Plan. Strengthening of the Unit includes the creation of new posts of System Analyst, Computer Operators/Data Processing Assistant etc. in the near future.
15.5.2 During 1990-91, CMIS Unit has taken the following projects for computerisation
Creation of database relating to group B and Group C officers of Department of Education on selected parameters such as name, designation, division, section, date of joining etc. for internal-adjustments.
Pay-billing system of the Department of Education.
Analysis of Seventh Five Year Plan.
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Publication - Education in India Vol.I(S) 1986-87.
Financial data on Income and expenditure of Institutions for Publication in Education in India, Vol.II for the years 1982-83 and 1983-84.
Education in India Vol. III - Examination results 1981- 82, 1982-83 and 1983-84.
Creation of database and generated tables for Selected Educational Statistics, 1988-89.
Annual Action Plan for 1990-91 on selected schemes of the Department.
State profile on Budgeted Expenditure on Education-
Generation of International Standard Book Numbering (ISBN) System for Raja Ram Mohan Roy National Unit.
Population Projections in the age group of 6-14.
Model Building for Projections of enrolments.
Preparation of District Profile of Bihar and Rajasthan.
Creation of database on voluntary organisations in the, twin Cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad.
Preparation of District-wise Educational Profile - 1981.
Database on Statistics of Education of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes for 1981-82 and 1982-83.
Developed database and generated tables for the publication entitled "A HandBook of Educational and Allied Statistics 1991.
Preparation of statistical tables and graphs for the draft report on Economic Survey-
Preparation of Eighth Five Year Plan proposals for the Department of Education.
15.5.3 To create computer awareness and generating basic expertise in computer operations and software applications, this Unit organised a training programme for the officials of different Divisions of the Department including Planning, Monitoring and Statistics Division.
Development of Computer based Management Information Systems BY
NIC 15.6.0 A team of officers of NIC has been assisting different Divisions of the Department of Education by developing software
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packages for generating various reports as per the requirements of the Department. Highlights of the achievements during the year have been as follows:
i) Citizens' perceptions in connection with review of National Policy on Education - 1986 have been computer analysed and a number of reports brought out. NIC has Played a key role in bringing out the final report.
ii) Profile of plan and non-plan schemes of Department of Education has been computerised and a number of databases have been created.
iii) Monitoring system for monitoring the pending assurances in Lok Sabha/Rajya Sabha has been developed and reports generated.
iv) A number of programs have been added to the package on financial assistance to non-govt. orga- nisations for preparing consolidated report, annual report and State Government reports.
v) Software has been developed for processing comprehensive educational statistics at institution level and at block level in connection with plan schemes of computerisation in educationally backward states.
vi) The system for processing applications for generating copyright certificates and index cards has been operationalised.
vii) A number,of training programmes have been organised for senior level officers of the Department of Education to promote informatics culture.
viii) A number of officers have been trained in the operation of the tailor made packages and on Wordstar, Lyrix and dBASE III PLUS.
National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration 15.7.0 The National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA), set up by Government of India as an autonomous organisation continued to undertake the following activities:-
Training and Orientation of Senior Educational Administrators.
Research in problems of educational planning and administration (23 research studies were in progress).
Extension services and consultancy services for states and other organisations.
Seminars, workshops and conferences on matters relevant to educational planning and
programmes/seminars/workshops were conducted during the year 1990-91).
Provision of training and research facilities to other countries and to international organisations, UNESCO, UNDP, IIEP, Commonwealth Secretariat, etc.
Provision of technical support to Government on management of education.
The Institute brought out the following publications:-
School Mapping - Guidelines.
Handbook on Environmental Education for Educational Planners and Administrators.
Planning and Management of Non-formal Education A Manual for Project Officers.
Journal of Educational Planning and Administration - Special Issue on "Distance Education". 15.7.1 A review of the work and the progress of the Institute was carried out by a Committee set up by the Government in 1989. The Report of the Review Committee was examined by an Empowered Committee set up by the Ministry in July, 1990. The recommendations of the Empowered Committee on the Report of the Review Committee were approved by the Government and are under implementation.
15.7.2 The following are some of the major recommendations of the Empowered Committee:
NIEPA should develop as a centre for excellence in educational planning and administration.
NIEPA should gradually transfer its responsibilities relating to training of functionaries at district level or Principals of colleges and others to the State level units.
NIEPA should choose its clientele and programmes where it has competencies, where the clients need the programme and where there is a scope for making an impact. This should be based upon a survey of training needs.
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NIEPA should support and having networking arrangements with State level institutions of Planning and Administration, appropriate university departments and institutes of management and of social science research, for undertaking action-oriented research and other forms of research and training activities.
One of the priority tasks of NIEPA will be to encourage and support the development of institutions in the States and UTs which would be responsible for undertaking tasks of educational planning and administration.
Different States have their own administrative hierarchy, systems of management, pattern of recruitment and procedures and rules. NIEPA may undertake inter- state studies and action research programmes for identifying the structures and systems which are efficient, cost-effective and easily adaptable.
There should be a system of performance appraisal for all faculty and research staff. The appraisal should be largely development oriented.
Scheme of Assistance for Studies, Seminars, Evaluation etc. for
Implementation of Education Policy 15.8.1 The Scheme of Studies, Seminars, Evaluation etc. for the Implementation of Education Policy aims at resolving problems relating to the formulation, implementation and evaluation of education development programmes.
15.8.2 The Scheme is intended to provide financial assistance to deserving institutions and individuals, on the merits of each proposal, for conduct of seminars/workshops, conduct of impact and evaluation studies etc. Such programmes are to have relevance to Education Policy, its implementation and connected problems.
15.8.3 During 1990-91 financial assistance was given for the organisation of one Seminar, one Training Programme, one evaluation study and publishing of one journal. Besides funds were released for 3 old projects.
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