Lok Sabha Question No. 5771 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-04-10
Subject: Digital Study Material
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: NANABHAU FALGUNRAO PATOLE

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION & LITERACY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 5771 TO BE ANSWERED ON 10.04.2017

## Digital Study Material

†5771. SHRI NANA PATOLE:

Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of mobile apps and websites launched under Digital India initiative by the Government to make the study material available online to students;
- (b) the details of the scheme named 'Saransh' launched by the Government for the CBSE students;

(c) the details of the facilities made available to the parents for the comparative information regarding the performance of students at district, State and National level; and

(d) the time-limit set up for the use of technology to bring transparency in school education system and reduce the burden of examinations and the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (SHRI UPENDRA KUSHWAHA)

(a) The  Ministry  of  Human  Resource  Development  (MHRD)  has  created  a  website,  namely, swayam  (www.swayam.gov.in)  and  swayam  mobile  app  for  iPhone  Operating  System  (iOS), Android and Windows Platform to make study material available online to students.  In addition, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has also launched a web portal and  a  mobile  app,  namely,  e-Pathshala  (http://epathshala.nic.in  &  http://epathshala.gov.in),  which provides access to textbooks and other resources developed by the NCERT.  The Central Board of Secondary  Education  (CBSE)  has  started  e-CBSE  website  and  mobile  apps  to  make  the  study material of CBSE available online to students.

- (b) With a vision of 'Improving children's education by enhancing interaction between schools as well as parents and providing data driven decision support system to assist them in taking best decisions for their children's future', the CBSE has developed an in-house decision support system called 'SARANSH'.  The system provides the following facilities:
- Data driven analysis empowering Schools and Parents to take best decisions for students.
- All the performance metrics are presented through numbers as well as charts/ graphs for easy understanding.
- Equip schools and parents to review student's performance in various subjects.
- It helps school to look performance in scholastic areas at an aggregate level and at the level of each student .

(c) The Saransh website, inter-alia , provides comparative information regarding the performance of students at State and National level.

(d) Education, being a subject in the Concurrent List of the Constitution and majority of schools are under the jurisdiction of the State/Union Territory Governments, it is for the respective State/ Union  Territory  Governments  to  take  appropriate  measure  for  the  use  of  technology  to  bring transparency in school education system and to reduce the burden of examinations. No time-limit can be set by the Central Government in this regard.

Ministry  of  Human  Resource  Development  has  developed  an  online  platform,  namely, SHAGUN  for  monitoring Sarva Shiksha  Abhiyan (SSA), the flagship programme  of the Government of India supporting Universalization of Elementary Education. It, inter-alia , provides a Management Information System (MIS) to evaluate  state  level  performance  and  progress  against key performance indicators and enables the public, State Governments, Teachers and Learners to get a  'hands-on'  experience  of  the  achievements  registered  through  use  of  SSA  funds.    Further,  the CBSE  has  also  been  using  technology  to  instil  transparency  and  convenience  in  the  schools affiliated to it through various portals/websites, namely, प�रणाममंजूषा , ई -सी . बी . एस . ई , परी�ा , पंजीयन , अधयापप , पुनिनर्वेन , छात्रिृ , पुनरा्व�ण , e-Prac and e-Grades. As per the affiliation bye laws of the CBSE,  every CBSE affiliated school has to establish its website and important information about the school such as vision of the school and the list of the prescribed textbooks in various classes should be posted on its website.

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