Organisation : Odisha Primary Education Programme Authority
Service Name : Child Tracking System CTS
Applicable States/ UTs : Odisha
Website : http://www.opepa.odisha.gov.in/website/default.aspx
Details : https://www.statusin.in/uploads/38528-CTS.pdf
OPEPA Odisha CTS
Project e-Shishu was designed for the better planning, implementation & monitoring of SSA programme in Orissa.
Related : Women & Child Development Biju Kanya Ratna Yojana Odisha : www.statusin.in/37975.html
Child Tracking System (CTS) is the major component of project eshishu having a focus towards the management of educational status of the 6-14 years age group children in the state with the three basic goals of SSA as
1. Access : Tracking the out of school children with their age, social category, gender, reason of being Out of school & present engagement. Provide the need specific access to them for the elementary education.
2. Retention : Tracking the In-school children and providing necessary support to them to retain in the school until completion of the elementary level.
3. Quality of Education : Tracking the achievement level of the children In-school and taking corrective measures for it’s improvement.
Need for CTS
** Till 2005, DISE was the only source of the data base for the Elementary Education/ SSA in the state, providing the detail information of Infrastructure, Teacher & Enrollment.
** DISE provides the enrollment in number and there was the possibility of its over reporting due to existence of fake, duplicate & double enrollments in the school records.
** DISE doesn’t cover the list of out-of school children. There was no system for identification of an Out of School Children to provide him/her the need based educational facility.
However, Block wise no. of such children was collected arbitrarily through BRCCs/CRCCs and was compiled. There was no scope to identify the villages having more no. of Out of school children.
** For generation of educational indicators, the projected child population from Census-2001 was used.
** DISE doesn’t provide child wise achievement level or attendance rate.
Objectives of CTS
Child Tracking System was conceived during 2005 with the following objectives.
** Tracking each & every child from 0 – 14 years age group by name / DOB / educational / socio- economic status throughout the State consisting of about 1.05 crore children & 78 lakhs households and prepare a database.
** Identify the pre-school, in-school & out-of school children and provide them the basic need of elementary education.
** Identify the achievement level of the children and support to enhance it.
** Provide unique child code to the children for tracking them in subsequent years and ensuring their benefits related to education.
** Using the database for proper planning & implementation of different SSA activities.
Assistance
** More than 45000 stake holders including Teachers, AW workers, local youth, officials from field level to state level were involved in the job.
** OCAC being the IT nodal agency of the state had supported in data scanning (ICR), data integration, software development and deployment.
** Internal MIS department of OPEPA has managed the process.
** Support from SSA towards training, printing of formats, mobility support, data scanning etc.