Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) Report

January 2, 2025

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The Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) report has been released by the Ministry of Education (MoE) recently.

Highlights of the Report

Enrolment Drop: The total enrolment of students has dropped with 24.8 crore students enrolled in the academic year 2023-24 as compared to 25.18 crore in 2022-23.
- Enrolment Rates dropped by over 6% (nearly 1.22 crore students) as compared to 2018-19.
Gender wise:
- Boys: A decrease of 4.87% in the enrollment was seen in the year 2023-2024 with 12.87 crore boys enrolled as compared to 13.53 crore in 2018-19.
- Girls: Enrolment of girls decreased from 12.49 crore in 2018-19 to 11.93 crore in 2023-24, a decrease of 4.48%.
State wise:
- Bihar (35.65 lakh students gap), Uttar Pradesh (gap of 28.26 lakh) and Maharashtra (gap of 18.55 lakh students) saw among the highest drop in enrolments as compared to 2018-2019.

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The Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+)

It is a digital application with the mandate of collecting information from all recognized schools imparting formal education from Pre-primary to XII
- UDISE+ now serves as the official statistics system of the Ministry of Education and is now operational in all the districts of the country.
- UDISE+ covers more than 14.72 lakhs of schools, 98.08 lakhs of teachers and 24.80 crores of children.
Launched In: It was launched in 2018-2019 to speed up data entry, reduce errors, improve data quality and ease its verification.
Revitalised UDISE+: It was launched in 2022-23 and captures data on more than 60 fields for each student..
Nodal Ministry: Department of School Education & Literacy, Ministry of Education
Objective: To utilise the information collected for planning, optimizing resource allocation and implementation of various education-related programs and assessments of progress made.
Data Collection: UDISE+ collects information through an online data collection form (DCF) on parameters ranging from school, Infrastructure, teachers, enrolments, examination results, dropouts, etc. spread across 11 sections.
- UDISE+ has the school as the unit of data collection and district as the unit of data distribution.
UDISE Code: The selected schools on the platform are provided a UDISE Code acting as a national level unique identifier.
Unique Educational ID (EID): A separate unique educational ID (EID) for every student has been created in the UDISE+ portal to cover each and every child under the ecosystem of UDISE+.
Functions:
- Database of Schools: Provides a platform to organize and classify all school data across the country and enables real-time exchange of information
- Improved monitoring, measurement and tracking of vital KPIs related to school performance.
- Enables leveraging data analytics on school data to identify factors affecting school performances.
- Time-series data allows to study the trend over years and monitor improvement/growth.

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