District Report Cards 2008

A Few Comments

I wish to compliment NUEPA for the valuable documents, very well structured to serve as valuable reference material, Dr. M. Anandakrishnan, Chairman, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

I must compliment NUEPA for producing such an informative well led out document which will give opportunity to researchers and policy makers to access vital information pertaining to various facets of elementary education, Maj. Gen. S.N. Mukharjee, Lakshmibai National University of Physical Education, Gwalior.

 It is a valuable document which will be useful to people from all walks of life. In fact I was searching for some data which is found in the publication, Prof. Geetha Bali, Vice-Chancellor, Karnataka State Women’s University, Mysore.

I just browsed through the publications and found that they are quite useful and informative. , Prof. R.S. Deshpande, Director, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore.

Both these publications will be of immense help for the department, Dr. R.G. Kothari, Professor of Education, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara.

 These documents are useful for the users of our library, Professor In-charge (Library), Maharshi Dayanand University Library, Rohtak.

The publications are very informative and would be used widely by researchers and policy makers engaged in the field of elementary education in India, Prof. R. Sambasiva Rao, Special Director General, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi

The data complied and presented in the publication are of immense value for research work on education and gender, and commendable. I congratulate NUEPA for bringing out such a useful publication, Swamy Swarupanand, Secretary, Ramakrishna Ashrama, Ramakrishnapuri, Gwalior

These publications are very useful and we will definitely share it with the interested organizations and individual, Mr. Patwari, Akshara Foundation, E-mail: aksharadwd@gmail.com.

Time has come that it should be accepted as sole authorized data of Government of India and also be extended to secondary level. NUEPA deserves compliments for the sustained effort and contribution, Prof. B.P. Khandelwal, NOIDA.

I agree that the reports would of great value from the point of view of planning experiments in universalization of the education,  Dr. Ragini Prem, Secretary, Banwasi Seva Ashram, Sonbhadra.

It looks a very useful collection of data, Mr. Sabtasachi Bhattacharya, Chairman, Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi.

The documents are of great use to the students and faculty members of our Department. Please convey our complements to DISE team for bringing out such an important statistics, Dr. A.K. Kundu, Deputy Librarian, North-Eastern Hill University, Meghalaya.

On behalf of our students and faculty, I would like to congratulate NUEPA for producing such valuable publications. Indeed, our faculty, researchers and students will benefit from the scholarly work that provides deeper insight into elementary education in India, Dr. Muhammad, The Aga Khan University, Karachi (Pakistan).

We shall process and display it in our library for scholars and researchers, Mrs. Savitri Devi, Deputy Director, Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi.

I am sure the reports will be of immense use in our own research work, Mr. A.J. Philip, Director, Pratichi, Delhi.

Analytical Report is extremely useful for our research scholars, Dr. P.P. Singh, Head, Library & Documentation Division, A.N. Sinha Institute of Social Studies, Patna

This will be useful to our library users, Librarian, National Institute of Technology Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh.

The material is useful and informative for us, Dr. P.D. Kaushik, Associate Director, Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, New Delhi.

We are sure that the publication will be of immense interest to our members, Ms. Bhavna Sharma, Library & Resource Centre, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.

I am sure it will be very useful reference material for me, Prof. Neerja Shukla, Professor & Head, Department of Education of Special Needs, NCERT, New Delhi.

This will surely help us in understanding the latest status of education in India in general and particularly in Gujarat. I would share this with my colleagues and all concerned, Dr. Pushopa Wadhwani, State Head, Azim Premji Foundation, Gujarat.

I would like to mention that I am pursuing M. Phil in elementary education in Himachal Pradesh. The data provided in this publication would be of immense use in my thesis, Ms. Masooma Singha, Shimla.

It is indeed an informative and useful document to monitor universalisation of elementary education. The compilation is very exhaustive and comprehensive effort. The work being put in is truly remarkable and commendable, Col. H Dharmarajan, Rashtriya Indian Military College, Dehradun.

It is a massive work magnificently executed,  Mr. Marmar Mukhopadhyay, Director, Educational Technology and Management Academy, New Delhi.

I am sending these publications to our Library for the benefit of researchers and students of JNU, Prof. B.B. Bhattacharya, Vice-Chancellor, JNU, New Delhi.

These publications have been forwarded to the University Library for wide publicity and use by the students and faculty members,  University Librarian, Chaudhary Devi Lal University, Sirsa, Haryana.

The hard work done by NUEPA in bringing out these volumes without much time-lag is commendable. The quality of publication is excellent. I am sure that the material given in these volumes will be widely used,  Prof. A.B.L. Srivastava, Chief Consultant, Technical Support Group, Ed. CIL.

This report will great reference material for our work and will be referred by researchers and students who come to visit our centre, Prof. Virgil D’Sami, Executive Director, Arunodhaya Centre for Street and Working Children, Chennai.

These publications containing useful data are being placed in the library for the information of readers, Prof. Jai Rup Singh, Vice-Chancellor, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar.

The document indeed provided a wealth of information pertaining to various facets of elementary education, Mr. Mervyn D’Sousa, Chairman, Goa Board of Secondary & Higher Secondary Education, Goa.

We are sure that these documents will be of immense help to our work, Mr. Naren Sankranthi, MV Foundation, Secunderabad.

It is a very useful document for our faculty. Our library will be richer by this addition, Dr. S.R.Hashim, Director, Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, New Delhi.

The publications will be of great reference to our teachers as well as students and hence a very useful addition to our library, Ms. Nandi Nailwal, Librarian, Lal Bhahdur Shastri Institute of Management, Delhi.

These documents will be of great value for our University specially for the faculty and students of the school of Education,  Prof. Mana Prasad Wagley, Dean, School of Education, Kathmandu University, Nepal.

We have found the data very useful and interesting,  Mr. Gururaj K. S., Azim Premji foundation, Bangalore.

I find the data and information presented very useful, Mr. V.G. Das, E-mail: dbei@sancharnet.in.

The copies have been kept in our library for wider readership, Prof. Pankaj Chandra, Director, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

This publication will be very useful to our library users,  Mr. B. Ganapathi, Librarian,Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, Gandhi Nagar, Gujarat.

We will keep this publication in our library collection for its wider use by researchers. I am sure the publication will help them in their research and study, Mr. Mustahsan Usmani Raja, Librarian, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow.

We find this report useful to our library, Mrs. P.S. Sharma, Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai.

This is very useful and valuable document and I hope that all the faculty members of my department will benefit from this publication, Prof. Santosh Sharma, Head, Curriculum Group, NCERT, New Delhi.

I browsed through the report and found it very useful and informative and gives plenty of information on elementary education. I am sending the report to our library for wider circulation, Prof. R.S. Deshpande, Director, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore.

The publication will prove excellent source of information for students and researchers in the field of education, Mr. Cima M. Yeole, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Maharashtra.

This will herald a new era for the academicians and researchers in the field of education to embark on fresh research and analysis, Prof. Rajendra Menaria, Jaipur.

We feel pleasure to say that the documents contain useful information about the elementary education in India, Mr. Swami Swarupanand, Secretary, Ramakrishna Ashram, Gwalior.

It is a laudable effort. Congratulations for bring out the publication, which provides latest information pertaining to various facets of elementary education. It would be wonderful to get school-specific raw data for various research processes, Dr. Savita Sinha, Professor & Head, DESSH, NCERT, New Delhi.

I am sure that the publications shall be valuable addition to our library and hope that our readers will be greatly benefited by these publications, Prof. Shabahat Hussain, Librarian-in-charge, Maulana Azad Library, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.

These would indeed be a valuable addition to our library collection, Ms. Anju Vyas, Librarian, Central for Women’s Development Studies , Library, New Delhi.

It is very useful in our research work, Mr. Fidelis Tirkey, Coordinator, Development of Library & Documentation Centre, Indian Social Institute, New Delhi.

This publication is very interactive and will be very useful to our research students and academic staff, Dr. D.D. Pednekar, Officer-in-charge, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.

It is very useful for our faculty members, Mr. Bharat Kumar, Librarian, Management Development Institute, Gurgaon.

I am happy to state that your publications are becoming more value added and superior over the years. I congratulate NUEPA for theses outstanding publications which will not only benefit researchers but also the people at large, Prof. Ajit Kumar Jain, Visiting Professor, IHMR, Jaipur.

The publications are very informative, Dr. Shayama Chona, Principal, Delhi Public School, New Delhi.

The document is really the need of the hour and I am sure that your tremendous work will certainly be appreciated by all researchers and policy makers, Dr. B. Yashovarma, Principal, Shri D.M. College, Ujire, Karnataka.

These kind of publications are very useful both for teaching and research work, Prof. N. Rajagopala Rao, Head, DOE, SSSU, Prasanthi Nailayam, Andhra Pradesh.

This report is immense helpful for the research students as well as for their guides to access vital information about elementary education in India, Dr. Surendra Nath Banerjee, Retired Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.

It is certainly useful for our advocacy purposes, Mr. R. Sachin Kumar Jain, DevelopmentJournalist, Vikad Samvad, Bhopal.

These publications would be of immense use to my students, research scholars and colleagues in our research work, Dr. Nityanda Pradhan, Head, P.G. Department of Education, D.A.V. College, Koraput, Orissa.

I am sure the publication will be of immense use to many in the field of school education, Mr. S. Sathyam, Chairman, HRD Ministry’s Review Committee on Educational Statistics, New Delhi. 

I assure, these publications will be brought to the notice of our collegeus in the SCERT, Mr. S. Suresh Babu, E-mail: sugoorusuresh@gmail.com.

These reports will be very much valuable for me and for my research scholars, Dr. Siba Charan Subudhi, Department of Education, North-Eastern Hill University, Tura Campus, Meghalaya.

We assure you that, the publication will be prominently displayed in our library for its best use, Dr. Muttayaa Koganuramath, University Librarian, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.

I would like to congratulate NUEPA on producing a valuable report, which provides an analytical landscape of elementary education in India. We will keep the report in our library for sharing it with our faculty and students who will benefit from the material for their research work, Dr. Hamid-uddin Al Kirmani, Professor and Director, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.

The report and the data compiled are very useful to our projects in designing, comparing the progress and fixing the future target activities, Mr. K. Balakrishna Moorthy, General Secretary, People’s Action for Social Service, Andhra Pradesh.

As the publication is quite informative and useful, I hope the teacher participants will be really benefited, Dr. H.S. Bhatia, Director, UGC Academic Staff College, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. 

This is very useful addition to our library, I am sure the educationists and the research scholars will make good use of it, Ms. N. Seetharambhai, Secretary, Andhra Mahila Sabha, Literacy House, Hyderabad.

 The publications are bound to help in my working on legal aspects of right to elementary education, Mr. Ashok Aggarwal, Social Jurist, New Delhi.

 I shall be able to make better use of the reports in planning for our state, Mr. M. Alphonse, Tamil Nadu.

These publications will help us immensely in planning different activities for improving the state of education in Orissa, Mr. Anil Pradhan, Member Secretary, Sikshasadhan, Orissa.

 It provides a great input to our faculty and researchers in teaching and research, Mr. Bibhuti Kumar Singh, SRD, Tuljapur, E-mail: bibhuti1069@rediffmail.com.

This publication will definitely helpful for us in drawing out our strategy of implementation educational programmes in our programme areas, Mr. Ravi Nayse, Regional Programme Coordinator, Chandrapur.

We are adding document to our collection and are sure that these will be of immense interest to our members, Ms. Bhavna, Manager, Habitat Library & Resource Centre, India Habitat Centre, Delhi.

The publication will be of great help to government and policy makers institutions, Mr. Yaqoon Memon, Director-al-Hira Public School, Indore, Madhya Pradesh.

 We have added the material to the collection of our library, Ms. Kanchan Vasudev, Documentation Officer, National Social Science documentation Centre, ICSSR, New Delhi.

Analysis of data has been done very nicely and presented very well using coloured and graphical figures. I am sure the publications will be widely used by planners and researchers, Dr. J.C. Goyal, Former, Reader, NCERT, New Delhi.

Both reports are very useful for us because we are now in the process of improving our data collection, Mr. Sam Sereyrath, Director of Planning, MoEYS, Cambodia.

The reports show the mirror of the district scenario and it will be quite useful to achieve the goals in the field of education, Dr. T. S. Joshi, Principal, District Institute of Education & Training, Gandhinagar, Gujarat.

The report has not only been well documented but it will be really useful for us those who are working on child education in collaboration with the various state governments. The detailed information provided in the report, supported by data, will certainly help us to design and plan our education intervention accordingly, Ms. Mumtaz Masood, Ambuja Cement Foundation, Okhla, New Delhi.

The publication has been added to the holdings of the library for consultation. Mr. Naveen Mahajan, Deputy Library and Information Officer, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, New Delhi.

I whole heartedly congratulate and appreciate NUEPA for its outstanding efforts in bringing out Analytical Report. The DISE data will definitely help multi national companies to make their efforts to improve information about elementary school education in rural areas, Prof. Nagesh Shinde, Professor & Head, School of Studies in Continuing Education, Vikram University, Ujjain.

The publication is of immense help to our institute and is being displayed in the library, Mr. Challang R Marak, Lecturer, DIET, Tura.

The documents are highly useful research activities and in regular classroom interactions, Prof. M. Nirmala Jyothi, Professor & Head, Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam, AndhraPradesh.

This document will be of great help and benefit to us, Ms. Ranjana Sharma, Assistant Co-ordinator, Research Monitoring & Evaluation, E-mail: r8.ranjana@gmail.com.

It will be displayed in our library and made available to the policy makers, researchers, faculty and our students, Mr. M.P. Deshpande, Principal DIET, Dharwad. 

These are quite helpful for our research, Ms. Supriya Mallik, Principal DIET, Dolipur.

I convey my congratulations to NUEPA for having prepared so useful data which renders the work of the administrators and researchers easy and authentic, Dr. S. Kumar, General Secretary, Forum of Senior Citizens in Education, Panchkula.

Really these volumes present a comprehensive analysis about the status of elementary education in India, which will be quite useful to research scholars and related faculty of the Institute, Dr. Dinesh Kumar, E-mail: anilupadhyaya2008@gmail.com.

This document has been forwarded to the university library for wide publicity and use by the students and faculty members, Librarian, Chaudhary Devi Lal University, Sirsa.

The publication contains a wealth of meaningful information. Certainly it will be immensely useful for researchers, teachers and district administration, Prof. Beena Shah, Vice-Chancellor, M.J.P. Rohilkhand University, Bareilly.

This will no doubt be a valuable addition to our library to benefit our faculty members, research scholars and students, Mr. N. Choudhary, Librarian, LBN Library, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh.

It will be of great help to the students and researchers at large. I must say that your research team must be congratulated for the wonderful work that they have done, Dr. Vandana Upadhyay, Department of Economics, Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh, Itanagar.

I am in the process of reading intently the publication and find it exceedingly informative. The school specific raw material will undoubtedly help us in the administrative and academic purpose, Dr. Indu Khetarpal, Principal, Salwan Public School, Gurgaon, Haryana.

The publications have been added to our college library and made known to the staff members, Dr. Mahabaleshwara Rao, Professor cum Principal, Dr. T.M.A. Pai College of Education, Udupi.

We researchers are able to know both a bird’s-eye view at national level and the detailed report regarding each district in India. I highly appreciate your hard efforts and analysis, Hisako Akai, Fukuoka, Japan.

The District Report Cards provide ample information for making critical analysis of various states in India especially on elementary education. Dr. R.S. Sharma, Ex-Fellow, NUEPA, New Delhi.

Thanks for sending me this invaluable volume, Prof. Anil Sadgopal, Sahkar Nagar, Bhopal.

Indeed the publications are valuable addition to our library, Dr. Renuka Narang, Education Consultant, Mumbai Transformation Support Unit, All India Institute of Local Self Government, Mumbai

I find the publication useful for strengthening Education Management Information System in India, Prof. Bharati Bhaveja, Head and Dean, Department of Education, University of Delhi.

We will place documents in the teacher education section of the library where it will be used by visitors as well teacher trainees, Ms. Radhika Herzberger, E-mail: radhika@rishivalley.org.

I had a quick glance of the contents and the work reported is very high quality. I wish you all success in dissemination this report. Dr. S. Sadagopan, Director, Initernational Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore.

It will be very useful for our faculty and students. Some of our students are working on education for their M.A/M.Phil dissertation, Dr. M. Indira, Associate Professor, Department of Studies in Economics and Co-operation, University of Mysore, Mysore. 

Congratulations on all your good work with DISE data. It is really a fantastic achievement to get increasingly reliable data on 1.25 million elementary schools in India. I think a lot can be done in terms of district level analysis of the data. Dr. Geeta Kingdon, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, Oxford.

We are delighted to see that the new District Report Cards using DISE data are already online as they have wealth of interesting information, Dr. Vandana Sipahimalani Rao, Human Development Economist, Manila, Philippines.

Thanks for sending me two volumes of your valuable publications, Elementary Education in India: District Report Cards, Prof. Ashish Bose, Leading Demographer and Former Professor, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi.

I am sure it would be of great help, Dr. Sharada Jain, Director, Sandhan (Society for Education & Development), New Delhi. 

This is what we have been waiting for, Ms. Varsha Hooja, Director, Technical Operations,National Resource Centre for Inclusion Spastics Society of India.

Rest assured that our education team in India will make full use of this publication, and will encourage others to do so well, Mr. Sam Carlson, Lead Education Specialist for India.

The report is a rich source of data and useful for our research students, Prof. Geetha B. Nambissan, Chariman, Zakir Hussain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Your publications are surely useful and informative, always gives me a great encouragement to my further studies, Ms. Hisako Akai, Fukuoka, Japan.

I am sure the document will be of great help to all those who are committed to universal elementary education, Mr. Prakash Karat, General Secretary, Communist Party of India (Marxist), New Delhi.

Congratulations for launching over one million school report cards - this is wonderful achievement, Dr. Michael Ward, Senior Education Adviser, DFID India, British High Commission, New Delhi.

This is really amazing to see the remote village schools information on your website. The site will be very useful in understanding the status of the Indian schools, Mr. R. Venkat Reddy, venkatmvf@yahoo.com.

Thanks for felicitations for your monumental publication, Elementary Education in India: Progress towards UEE, Analytical Report, Mr. Saiyid Hamid, former Vice-Chancellor, Aligarh Muslim University, Chancellor, Jamia Hamdard and Secretary, Hamdard Education Society, New Delhi.

The data provided by DISE would be of immense help to the people who are working in the field of primary education. It would have been of great help to government to properly plan for the school level education for Muslims, Mr. Kamal Faruqui, Chariman, Delhi Minorities Commission, Vikas Bhawan, New Delhi.

It was great to learn about the progress made regarding DISE, Dr. Deepa Sankar, Education Economist, The World Bank, New Delhi.

DISE publications annually produce a vast wealth of educational statistics and I am so happy that NUEPA has kept up the standards in generating periodic information so useful for all of us, Dr. Preet Rustagi, Senior Fellow, Institute for Human Development, New Delhi.

I must confess that after the monumental work of J.P.Naik on the history of Indian education your work related to elementary education in India is the most comprehensive data-base published so far. It will be an invaluable for all researchers and policy makers on education in the coming decades, Prof. Gautam Sen, Director General, Indian Institute of Education, Pune.

We hope to benefit from the publication, Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman,Planning Commission, New Delhi. 

Congratulations on the excellent production of the two volumes of the District Report Cards, Prof. Amitabh Kundu, Centre for Studies in Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

The publication is very useful containing considerable amount of data and analysis, which will be useful for researchers in the field of education, Prof. Anandakrishnan, Chairman, Madras Institute of Development, Chennai.

Thank you for sending me very useful publications ,Shri J. Veeraraghavan, Director, BhartiyaVidya Bhavan, New Delhi.

I have placed the publication in our library for wider consultation by our scholars, Prof. C.H. Hanumantha Rao, Chairman, Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad.

NUEPA’s success in operationalising the nationally acclaimed DISE has been one such landmark, revolutionizing the role of education planners, who can now address local developmental needs from an informed perspective, armed with statistical and situational data, Mr. Samphe Lhalungpa, Ex- Chief, Education Section, UNICEF India Country Office, New Delhi.

A great piece of work, congratulation for putting everything in black and white, Dr. Maheswar Lal, Asha for Education, Philadelphia.

The publications (Elementary Education in Rural and Urban India) would be very useful addition to our library, Mr. Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Chairperson, National Commission for Minorities, Government of India, New Delhi.

The publications containing valuable recent data on the state of elementary education in India will no doubt be found most useful by myself and my students at JNU, Prof. D.N. Rao, Centre for Economic Studies & Planning School of Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

The data provided in the Analytical Tables are of immense utility, Prof. P.M. Kulkarni, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

The DISE Flash Statistics is becoming smarter with more and more information. I congratulate DISE team for their total dedication in compiling the data, Mr. S.S. Rajagopalan, Chennai.

This is a welcome step and I appreciate the efforts undertaken by NUEPA, Dr. Lokesh K. Shekhawat, Vice-Chancellor, Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur.

We are extremely thankful to you for sending such a valuable publication, Librarian, TilakMaharashtra University Library, Pune.

We have kept the publication in the Central Library of the institute, which will be useful for our readers, Dr. Yogendra Singh, Ex-Scientist, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee Central Library, Roorkee.

I find the publication well prepared, quite useful and informative. Dr. B.N. Yugandhar, Member, Planning Commission of India, Yojana Bhawan, New Delhi.

I write to appreciate the efforts NUEPA has been making for the last several years in strengthening EMIS in the country. The amount of data being disseminated regularly through DISE publications, enormous and rich in contents, attests to the significant achievement of NUEPA, Dr. Raman P. Singh, Deputy Advisor (Education), Planning Commission, Yojana Bhawan, New Delhi.

Just received the two volumes of elementary education in India. Should I say I am privileged? I have just leafed through the pages and have had a sensation. What a tremendous job done! Really grateful for the prompt dispatch, Mr. Soumen Hom, Kolkotta.

District Report Cards will be of immense help in the activities in school education at CII, Ms. Alka Chaudhary, Director, Confederation of Indian Industry, New Delhi.

The information would help us in many ways, Mr. Sunil Gautam, Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, New Delhi.

I have gone through documents on the web, they are immensely useful for my research. I want to congratulate you and also convey my thanks for providing such vast information, Prof. Amulya Chagapuram, ICFAI University, Hyderabad.

The http://schoolreportcards.in is nice move. It helps if you are an academician, it helps if you are a policy maker, and it helps even if you are a common citizen. The data will help the process of empowerment and strengthen the democracy, Dr. Ram Manohar Vikas, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.