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.