Lok Sabha Question No. 157 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-02-03
Subject: Outcomes of RTE Act
Ministry: EDUCATION
Asked by: Shri E T Mohammed Basheer

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION & LITERACY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 157 ANSWERED ON 3 rd  February, 2025

## Outcomes of RTE Act

157. Shri E T Mohammed Basheer:

Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has evaluated the outcome of the implementation of Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act, if so, the details of the achievement made by the Government till date; and
- (b)  whether  the  Government  has  any  plan  to  expand  digital  literacy  programmes  in  the rural regions of the country, if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION (SHRI JAYANT CHAUDHARY)

(a): Education  is  in  the  Concurrent  List  of  the  Constitution  and  majority  of  schools  are under the jurisdiction of the respective State Government and Union Territory Administration which are the appropriate Government for implementation of the provision of  the  Right  of  Children  to  Free  and  Compulsory  Education  (RTE)  Act,  2009. The Department  of  School  Education  and  Literacy  is  implementing  an  Integrated  Centrally Sponsored  Scheme  for  School  EducationSamagra  Shiksha  w.e.f. 2018-19.  The monitoring system under Samagra Shiksha consists of :

-  Regular meeting under Education Secretaries/SPDs
-  Visits to States and UTs
-  National Workshop/Review Meeting on Physical and Financial progress.
-  Monitoring through PRABANDH system
-  Review of UTs by Hon'ble Home Minister with Lt. Governors and Administrators
-  Social Audit
-  UDISE+: Data bank of Education Indicators, Linkages with School GIS portal
-  Monitoring through Public Financial Management System (PFMS)

To monitor the impact of its umbrella schemes, Samagra Shiksha, the Department of School Education and Literacy developed a Management Information System, Unified District  Information System for Education Plus(UDISE+) starting from the reference year 2018-2019. To further revolutionize the school data collection mechanism and to monitor learning outcome and track dropped-out students, starting from 2022-2023 UDISE+ was revitalized to collect individual student-wise data. Similarly, individual teacher-wise data is also being collected and maintained to promote Good Governance. This Department has made  the  UDISE+  2023-2024  report  available  in  public  domain  and  the  same  may  be accessed at  'https://udiseplus.gov.in/#/en/page/publications'.

(b):  To  ensure  equitable  digital  access  across  rural  areas,  a  comprehensive  initiative called PM e-VIDYA is underway which unifies all efforts related to e-education including digital/online/on-air education to  enable  multi-mode  access  to education.  The  key components of this initiative are:-

-  DIKSHA - the nation's digital infrastructure for providing quality e-content for school education  in  States/UTs  and  QR  coded  Energized  Textbooks  for  all  grades (one nation, one digital platform).  DIKSHA currently hosts 7,080+ textbooks energized with QR codes, including 374 NCERT textbooks and ETBs.
-  To  promote,  crucial  and  critical  thinking  skill,  a  vertical  on  Virtual  Labs  has  also been created on DIKSHA platform. 280 Virtual Labs for Science and Mathematics for subjects Class 6th to 12th have been made available. Training on Virtual labs has been conducted through PM eVidya DTH TV channels for teachers and teacher educators across the country.
-  DTH TV Channels  -  As  per  the  Union  Budget  announcement  for  Financial  Year 2022-23, the 12 DTH Channels have been expanded to 200 PM eVidya DTH TV Channels to enable all States/UTs to provide supplementary education in various Indian  languages  for  classes  1-12.  The  channels  have  been  allocated  to  the States/UTs  and  Autonomous  bodies  under  MoE  and  other  ministries  and  are operational.
-  Extensive use of Radio, Community Radio and CBSE Podcast- Shiksha Vani.
-  Special e-content for visually and hearing impaired developed on Digitally Accessible Information System (DAISY) and in sign language. This is available on NIOS website/ YouTube.
-  Under Samagra Shiksha, under the ICT and Digital Initiatives financial assistance is provided for establishing ICT Lab and Smart Classrooms in schools.