Bihar primary schools website launched

Patna: The Human Resource Development Department of Bihar government has gone hi-tech. Now details about all the 70,000 primary and upper primary government-aided schools in Bihar are just a click away as education authorities have compiled and posted information regarding these teaching institutions online.

A mouse click on website will give required information about number of students, teachers, rooms, furniture and other amenities in any of the 70,000 primary and upper primary schools in Bihar for the year 2009-10. Each school has been provided with a code number, which is expected to help in finding a school.

The website is being managed by the National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA) to identify the status of elementary education in India under its project District Information System for Education (DISE), Bihar Education Project (BEP) Programme Officer Ravishankar Prasad Singh said.

He said it has been an arduous task on the part of the schools concerned, the district education officials and the designated officials under the Human Resources Development Department (HRD) to go through the process of compilation of data on a data collection form (DCF).

Vouching for authenticity of data regarding schools, Singh said everybody involved in the task was repeatedly asked to verify details of their DCFs and issue a certificate owning the facts before the HRD officials submitted the report to the union HRD ministry prior to its uploading on the website.

In addition, the department has decided to put the information related to the private primary/upper primary schools on the website as mandated under the Right to Education Act soon.

The BEP officials said the available data about the government schools would also be used for consistent improvement in the quality of education of the students and help them attain excellence in their later academic career.

The data would also be useful in timely distribution of books, dress, funds of bicycles and other facilities as there was no shortage of funds to the state from the centre’s flagship programme – Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), he added.

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