Unified District Information System for Education

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The Unified District Information System for Education or UDISE is a database about schools in India. [1] The database was developed at the Department of School Education, Ministry of Education, Government of India and Maintained by National Informatics Centre, Government of India.

It records information such as the level of dropouts [2] and the condition of school toilets. [3]

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References

  1. "U-DISE Unified District Information System for Education". U-DISE. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  2. Pednekar, Puja (8 September 2014). "Mumbai: state forms 7-member team for school drop-outs". Hindustan Times. Mumbai. Archived from the original on September 13, 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2014. Currently, there are 3-4% children in the state who do not attend school, says the Unified District Information System of Education (U-DISE)
  3. Smart, Pallavi (5 October 2014). "Loo-se ends in govt's clean toilets scheme". Pune Mirror. Retrieved 5 October 2014. U-DISE report shows over 3,000 toilets in schools are unusable.... A Unified District Information System of Education (U-DISE) report of 2013-14 has revealed there are 3,278 toilets in schools which are not usable.