Question : Shala Asmita Yojana

(a) whether the Government has launched the ''Shala Asmita Yojana'' and if so, the details
thereof;
(b) the details of information likely to be tracked through the said programme;
(c) the details of authority/department/organisation responsible to maintain the academic
repository under the said yojana;
(d) the criteria to access this academic repository and the recourse the students will have in
case there is a discrepancy in their data uploaded; and
(e) whether the competent authority will be mandated to inform students in case their data is
hacked/misused considering the lack of privacy laws and the recourse the students will
have in such cases?

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
(SHRI UPENDRA KUSHWAHA)
(a) to (e): No, Madam. This was not formally launched. However, it is informed that the National
University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA) has been annually collecting
information on various educational indicators including enrolment of children through the Unified
District Information System for Education (U-DISE). This is now being upgraded to include
student-wise information with the unique ID of the student, to enable the tracking of students in all
schools in the country to monitor dropouts, retention etc. To support this framework, an online web
enabled database has been envisaged to capture data on schools, teachers and students.
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