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eGov Products & Services
Integrated ShalaDarpan
Decision Support System for Schools Monitoring & Management
Edited by SARBJEET SINGH halaDarpan is an excellent system developed towards the Digital Age.
for the Education Department, Rajasthan,
Scovering online records of all students, teachers Salient Features
ShalaDarpan is a unique idea to and staff of government schools. System is used by • Bilingual, workflow based user friendly system
provide an end-to-end solution students, teachers, staff and higher managements • Covers all government Schools under various
for their day to day working. System reaches up to
to the Education department village level for the services like daily attendance, managements such as the School Education
department, Sanskrit education, Social justice,
for effective monitoring and Staff selection, Joining/ Relieving of staff, Class Madarsa, TADA schools etc.
wise academic records, Result preparations, School
management of all Government Infrastructure status and Enrollment status in about • Transactional information of Staff/ Students
Schools. System facilitates 65,000+ government schools of Rajasthan. It is also maintained
decision support, Planning being used as a real time system for state level • Availability of Dashboard for every school
Planning, Decision support and schemes/ programs
(School Open/ Upgrade/ Merge/ implementation. System covers online information • Reliable tool for department to quickly fetch the
information for Assembly/ Court/ RTI queries
Close), School operations of 80+ Lakhs Students, 4.6+ Lakhs Teachers/ Staff • Staffing pattern generation based on School
details of all types of Government Schools in the
(Admissions, Promotions, state. Category/ Enrolment etc.
ShalaDarpan is widely appreciated by various
and Results) along with Staff state governments as well as the Secretary MHRD, • Live vacancies against the Sanctioned Post and
Management (Recruitment, Government of India - most critically because of its their posting through Counselling Process
Posting, and Relieving) and ability to largely eradicate offline data processes • Daily attendance of Staff & Leave Management
and redundancy in data collection efforts. 20+
proper implementation of states visited Rajasthan to study the System. • Communication (Web/ SMS/ Email) from Hq. to
School/ Staff on various events
Beneficiary Schemes. ShalaDarpan has received many national/ State level
awards, viz. CSI SIG e-Governance Award-2019, State • Schools linked through Help & Support Module for
e-Governance Award-2018 and SKOCH Order-of-Merit their day to day issues
Certificate-2018.
• Result Preparation, Sessional Marks Calculation,
About Green Sheet & Mark sheet Printing
Tarun Toshniwal The focus of designing the system is “What • Work Progress/ Monitoring Reports
Dy. Director General Government Needs”. Agile development and • Used for all beneficiary services viz. Scholarship,
& SIO implementation was carried out in a phased Free Textbook distribution, Laptops, Cycle
tarun.toshniwal@nic.in database-to-decision approach wherein all critical distribution, Transport voucher etc.
databases related to students, staff and schools
were built and reports were designed and released • Developed using UDISE code which is a standard
to take data-driven decisions. Looking at the impact for School Education sector to help develop full-
of Integrated ShalaDarpan in terms of availability of fledged customizable product for use by any state
data, prevention of data redundancy, sharp and swift
Vinod Kumar Jain two-way communication across the state education • NIC Chat Intelligence (NICCI) Chatbot for users
Sr. Technical Director machinery, and coverage of almost all the areas of assistance
vinod.jain@nic.in
School’s Management, the system has become a vital
need for district/ state level offices. Technologies Used
This centralized data supports the department Languages & Technology: Asp.Net/C#, JQuery,
to face significant challenges such as pupil-teacher Bootstrap Design Pattern
ratio, absenteeism, vacancies, low enrollment, RDBMS: SQL Server 2019 and Non Relational DB-
inadequate infrastructure, budget requirements etc. Mongo for document storing
Animesh Pant School, district and state staff have become more
Scientist - C Important Integration
animesh.pant@nic.in accountable because it is extremely simple to figure
out the bottleneck in any implementation. • Aadhaar
Analytical reports are available at schools using • Jan Aadhaar
which lists of possible dropout children are seen so
that schools can take necessary action to retain the • eGRAS Payment Gateway
Rajendra Singh children in mainstream thus minimizing the dropout • SMS and email relay services
Bidawat numbers. In short, ShalaDarpan has now become • About 80,000+ eMitra Kiosks
Scientist - B a unique, centralized tool integral to the Education
rs.bidawat@nic.in Department which is steadily driving Rajasthan • Jan Soochna Portal
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