Education Survey India
The main purpose of All India Educational Surveys (AIES) conducted periodically India
the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), is to collect,
compile and disseminate information of the country’s overall progress in the area of school education.
These Surveys provide basic inputs to develop educational plans at micro-level as well as at macro-level, to formulate educational policies,
and to monitor the progress of various educational schemes of the Central and State Governments.
It covers availability of schooling facilities in rural habitations, India
physical and educational facilities in schools,
incentive schemes and beneficiaries,
medium of instruction and languages taught, enrolment particularly of SCs, STs, girls and educationally backward minority community,
teachers and their academic and professional qualifications, library, laboratory,
ancillary staff and subject-wise enrolment at +2 stage of education.
In addition, the enrolment and teachers in unrecognised schools, Alternative Schools and AIE Centers, Oriental Schools covering Sanskrit Pathshalas,
Organisations Involved India
At the national level three organizations, namely,
the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) and the National Informatics Center (NIC) are involve .
The MHRD provides funds for the Survey and administrative support for its efficient execution.
The NCERT has share responsibility of providing all academic inputs,
management and coordination of Survey Operations and bringing out the reports for dissemination.
The NIC has responsible for all aspects of Computerization of the Survey including software development, processing of data and tabulation of results at the district,
state and national level.
In addition to this, NICNET network facility is use for faster communication and management of Survey activities.
At the state level all the 35 State Governments and Union Territory administrations are involved in execution of the Survey.
Objectives of the Survey
To assess the availability of Schooling facility for primary,
upper-primary, secondary and higher secondary stages within the habitations (including SC/ST) in different population slabs.
In case the facility is not within the habitation, the distance at which available.
To assess availability of basic facilities in the recognized schools such as building, classrooms, drinking water, electricity, urinals, lavatories,
To assess the position of teachers sex and SC/ST/OBC/Others) with academic and professional qualifications at different school stages in recognized schools.