(Shutterstock)The Centre’s decision to take over from a think tank an annual data survey of school infrastructure and make it an entirely online process is likely to delay the results, which are key to policy decisions on the education of the young. This year, data collection for the Unified District Information on School Education (UDISE) 2018-19 is yet to be completed and the results are unlikely to be released by August. School education data are used to assess the progress made by the states in implementing central government schemes on the recruitment of teachers and improvement of school infrastructure — and are therefore used to decide the funding to the states. Rath, a former school education secretary, said. An email sent to the department on Tuesday seeking its comments on the probable data delay had evoked no response till this report was filed.

Source: The Telegraph June 14, 2019 01:18 UTC