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National Policy on Education (NPE)

15.1.0 Steps have been taken for the vigorous implementation of the National Policy on Education (NPE), 1986 and Programme of Action (POA), 1992. Preparation of State Programmes of Action was pursued with all the State Governments and UT Administrations through letters and meetings. A group of Chief Ministers of high population and low literacy states was formed with a view to periodically reviewing Education for All (EFA) programmes in the States of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. The Group held one meeting at Bhopal on 1st July, 1994 and reviewed various programmes. In the Bhopal declaration, the Chief Ministers reaffirmed their commitment to the programmes for Education for All (EFA) and decided to give UEE and Total Literacy the highest priority. A meeting of Education Secretaries and Directors of North Eastern States was held at Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh on 24-25 October, 1994 to review the progress of implementation of Elementary Education, Adult Education and Vocational Education programmes in the North-Eastern States.

10th Finance Commission

15.2.0 The Department worked out requirements of grants for upgradation of educational facilities with a view to improving access to and quality of educational facilities and furnished detailed memorandum to the Tenth Finance Commission.

National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi

15.3.1 The National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA) is an autonomous body set up by the Government of India as the national apex institution in the field of educational planning and administration. The Institute's main areas of activities include training of educational planners and administrators, research, diffusion of innovations and Consultancy services. During the Year under report the institute continued to undertake activities in respect of training of educational planners and administrators, research, diffusion of innovations and consultancy services.

Training Activities

15.3.2 NIEPA organizes a large number of seminars, workshops and training programmes each year for various categories of educational functionaries with a view to increasing their awareness of new educational developments, acquainting them with modern techniques of educational management and enhancing their capability for educational planning and administration.

15.3.3 During 1994-95 (upto December 1994), the institute organised 25 programmes; another 15 programmes will be held in the quarter January-March 1995. Some of the important training and orientation programmes organised during the year are:

- Fourteenth (Phase II & III) and Fifteenth National Diploma in Educational Planning and Administration for district level educational administrators and faculty members of SCERTs & SIEs, etc.

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- Tenth International Diploma in Educational Planning and Administration (Phase I) for Education Officers from developing countries.

- Training programme on Decentralised Planning of Education

- Third Management Development Programme for Senior Educational Administrators on monitoring and evaluation of EFA.

- Eighth Training Programme for the faculty of Planning and Management Branch of DIETs.

- A number of workshops, training programmes seminars, study visits for different levels of functionaries associated with the Planning and Management of education.

15.3.4 The following publications have been brought out in the current year and disseminated widely :

- Three Reports of Second All India Education Survey on

Mizoram

Goa

Haryana

- Expenditure on Education Theory Models and Growth- Edited by Shri Prakash and S. Choudhary

- Source book on Environmental Education for Elementary Teacher Educators - Edited by Kusum K. Premi, S.C. Nuna and Pramila Menon

- Cost of Distance Education In India - Edited by Ruddar Dutt

- Education for All - A Graphic Presentation Journals

- JEPA-(English) 2 volumes - JEPA-(Hindi) 3 volumes - - Pariprekshya (Hindi)

Consultancy and Professional Support

15.3.5 The faculty members of the Institute provided consultancy and professional support to national, state and institutional level bodies as well as international organisations. Among the agencies which were given consultancy and professional support included the Ministry of Human Resource Development, University Grants Commission, State Education Departments, State Councils of Higher Education, SCERTs and other institutions within the country. Consultancy services were also provided to international agencies such as UNESCO, UNICEF, World Bank and SIDA.

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District Primary Education Programme

15.3.6 The District Primary Education Programme (DPEP) launched in 1993 seeks to operationalise the strategy of district level planning. The Institute faculty is deeply involved in the DPEP projects by way of providing professional support in the formulation of district plans and appraisal of the projects to be submitted for external assistance in the selected states.

Education for All

15.3.7 Besides, the Institute is involved in the Education for All programmes of the country.

Scheme of Assistance for Studies, Seminars, Evaluation, etc., for Implementation of Education Policy

15.4.1 The Scheme of Studies, Seminars, Evaluation, etc., for the implementation of Education Policy is intended to provide financial assistance to deserving institutions and organisations, for conduct of seminars, workshops, impact and evaluation studies, etc., in such areas that have relevance to the Education Policy, its management, implementation and related issues.

15.4.2 During 1994-95, financial assistance has been provided for Organisation of two seminars, five conferences, one project/ study and for publication of one journal.

Annual Plan

15.5.0 An Outlay of Rs. 1825 crore has been approved for the Annual Plan 1995-96 for the Department of Education which is 24.5% of the total 8th Plan outlay of Rs. 7443.00 crore. The outlay for 1995-96 represents a step up of 18.4% over the 1994-95 outlay of Rs 1541.46 crore.

Educational Statistics

15.6.1 Steps were taken to reduce the time lag in the compilation and printing of educational statistics. A meeting of Directors of Education/Public Instruction and Statistical Officers of the states and UTs was convened on November 9-10,1994 to discuss the status of the pendency of the data collection work and the problem of time lag. States/UTs have been advised to draw tip schedules for supplying the pending data up to the year 1992-93.

15.6.2 The progress in the implementation of the scheme of `Computerisation of Educational Statistics at State Level' was reviewed and it was decided to take advantage of the data for the year 1993-94 collected under the Sixth All India Educational Survey. To expedite data collection for the year 1994-95, state/UT governments were advised to get the S-1, S-2 and S-3 Forms printed and distributed well before the reference date, i.e., 30th September, 1994.

15.6.3 Two Regional Training Programmes were organised in collaboration with respective state /UT Governments at Lucknow (16-18 MAY,1994) and Chandigarh (2830 November, 1994) for the benefit of the statistical personnel engaged in the collection and compilation of educational data at Block/District/State headquarters.

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15.6.4 Under the Education in India series, the following publications have been brought out or have been finalized for printing during the year under report :

i) Selected educational statistics 1993-94

ii) Education in India vol.I(S) 1990-91

iv) Education in India vol.II(S) 1985-86

v) Education in India vol.II(S) 1986-87

vi) Education in India vol.II(S) 1989-90

x) Indian Students/Trainees Going Abroad 1992-93

xi) Education in India vol.III 1987-88

xii) Education in India vol.III 1988-89

xiii) Boards of Secondary Education/Higher Secondary Education in India - Results of High school and Higher Secondary Examination 1987-88.

Computerised Management Information System (CMIS)

15.7.1 A CMIS Unit was set up in 1985 within the Planning, Monitoring and Statistics Division with a view to accelerating the growth of computerised management information system and to create an expertise within the Department. The main objectives of the Computerised Management Information System are :-

a) Identify areas for computerisation and conduct feasibility studies for the development of computer based management information system.

b) System analysis, design and development of software for the implementation of the management information system.

c) Maintenance of software packages as per varying needs of the users in the Ministry.

d) Act as resource unit and provide training to the officials of the Ministry to develop local know-how for day to day processing of information.

e) Design and develop data base methodologies and build an effective Educational Information System, and

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f) Liaison with the National Informatics Centre.

15.7.2 This Unit continued to provide software and hardware support to various Bureau of the Department. The following projects/database were handled during the year under report :-

Planning, Monitoring and Statistics

- Education in India Vol.I (S)

- Education in India Vol.II (S)

- Education in India Vol.I (C)

- Education in India Vol.II (C)

- Education in India Vol.III

- Selected Educational Statistics 1993-94

- Indian Students/Trainees Going Abroad 1992-93

- Results of High and Higher Secondary Examination Boards of Secondary Education/Higher Secondary Education in India - 1987-88

- Selected Information on School Education

- Updated list of Education Ministers/Chief Secretaries/ Education Secretaries/DPIs etc.

- Annual Plan proposal 1995-96

Administration

- Pay-billing system of the Department

- Misc. recovery schedules (like CGEIS, GPF, Licence Fees, etc.) of officers of the Department.

- Personnel Management

- Telephone Directory of the Department

- Retrieval of Parliament Questions replied to during the last three years

Book Promotion

- Generation of International Standard Book Numbering (ISBN) system software developed for ISBN Unit.

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- One PC/AT 386 system installed in the ISBN Unit. Software support and training for generating ISBN provided to this Unit.

- Developing software on catalogue of books received in ISBN Unit.

Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan

- Computerisation of KVS admission on all India level on the basis of special dispensation (HRM, Ministers, Members of Consultative Committee, Members of Parliament, etc.)

Miscellaneous

- An integrated office automation software namely MS Office, Harvard Graphics were installed in the Department to make a positive contribution towards office automation and assistance provided for generating various reports, minutes, etc. to the District Primary Education Programme (DPEP), Elementary Education, Teacher Education, Non-formal Education and other Bureaux of the Department. Graphs, Charts and Slides have been prepared for presentation.

Computer based Management Information Systems developed by NIC for Department of Education

15.8.0 National Informatics Centre (NIC continued to provide software, hardware and consultancy support to Department of Education in developing Computer Based Management Information Systems. NIC has established a computer centre in the department and has installed a DCM COSMOS 80486 system and established a local area network of 25 terminals. A team of officers of NIC is working in close coordination with the officials of the department. Major achievements during the year 1994-95 are as follows :

I. Sixth All India Educational Survey

National Informatics centre in close collaboration with NCERT has taken up the job of computerisation of Sixth All India Educational Survey. It participated in the design of eight schedules for collection of data and preparation of guidelines for survey officers.

(i) It provided code structures of population census database to State/District survey officers for smooth conduct of survey and for developing an integrated data base.

(ii) It designed a number of software packages for data entry, validation and creation of school data base and educational facilities in villages/towns. It conducted two workshops at Delhi on the use of software for creation of data base to state informatics officers and state survey officers.

(iii)It provided an 80486 computer system with eight terminals to NCERT.

(iv) It hired data entry agencies in all States for data entry.

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(V) It participated with NCERT for design of tabulation plan and analytical reports from data of all these eight schedules.

(vi) Software development for Statistical tabulations is in progress.

(vii) Educational Statistics flash data have been received from 10 states and reports have been generated.

II. Education Department

1. Created a comprehensive database of budget expenditure on education based on data of 42 Years. Developed software for validation of data, processing of data and report generation. Brought out a publication entitled "Budget Resources for Education".

2. International mail facility through gateway to INTERNET (International network of computers) of NIC connected to various networks in a number of countries for access to international databases and for International electronic mail has been made available in NIC Computer Centre of Department of Education.

3. Spectrum of grant-in-aid package in respect of Non- Formal Education programme has been broadened from Office automation to monitoring by adding a number of programmes to the package for generating various monitoring reports thereby providing decision support to the management.

4. Publication based on education statistics data in respect of higher education for the year 1990-91 has been brought out by validating and processing data received from States/UTs.

5. Budget expenditure data on education for the period 1991-94 has been validated and processed and a publication has been brought out.

6. Vocational education data collected through survey has been computer analysed and a report has been brought out highlighting the impact of vocationalisation.

7. Development of information system to provide quick response to numerous queries received by Technical Education Bureau regarding recognition and equivalence of certifications given by various institutions has been taken up.

8. Creation of database based on educational statistics data for the year 1989-90 in respect of SC and ST has been taken up.

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