Shaala Darpan portal

(Ministry of HRD)

 

WHAT

Shaala Darpan portal launched. It is an E-Governance school automation and management system for Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS).

• It is a single integrated platform for information sharing and knowledge dissemination for the 22000 employees and over 2 lakh students across schools and offices of Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti.

 

The system has several pluggable components that can interact with each other. These are enlisted below:

• School Information and Management System for complete school automation
• Bilingual Content Management Portal for information dissemination
• Employee ERP to manage the day to day activities of all employees
• Budget & Finance management system
• Inventory & Store management system
• Library management system

 

Components of School Information and Management System:

• Student Management Information System
• Parent Guardian Information System
• Class & Teacher Management System
• Subject Management System
• Time Table Management System
• Attendance Monitoring with a mobile app
• Hostel & Mess management system for residential schools
• Student Health Card to monitor student health and vitals
• Assignment & Project Management System
• Exam & Results system
• Activities Management System

 

IMPACT OF SHAALA DARPAN

1. Unified, Dynamically Integrated, maintained view of NVS data
2. Increased visibility of student and institution achievements
3. Link Industry and academia by way of Alumni portal
4. Improvised & Controlled information dissemination
5. Increased outreach
6. Navigation ease for end users
7. Increased organisation collaboration
8. Collaboration beyond classrooms
9. Rich Assignment and Project store
10. Analytical Dashboards to aid real time performance audit
11. Rich learning resource store
12. Real-time alerts to safe guard missing children
13. Album of a child’s complete life in Navodaya Vidyalaya
14. Increased daily productivity
15. Connect JNV Schools and Offices

 

BENEFITS

1. More efficient processes:

• Reduced time for information searching.
• Timely completion of important processes like APAR.
• All essential documents available in one click.
• Timely information intimations like absence of students in class, movement of students outside the campus, any important notifications from management to officers.

 

2. Ease of stakeholders:

• Easy interface navigation with important alerts.
• Responsive GUI helps user to access the system on hand held devices mobile and tablets.
• Analytical dashboards for analysis and inference by management.
• Easy navigation and information access for citizens.
• Information sharing on portals in two languages – English and Hindi, for sharing of information with end users.
• Compliance to GIGW guidelines make the portals usable by differently abled users as well.

 

3. Increased transparency

• Status of actions taken in every module is available to the individual officers as well as NVS Officials at every stage of processing.
• One-Go Dash-Board to see the information of every aspect of the project, thus aiding faster and evidence based decision making.

 

4. Structured and Efficient way of working

• Manual processes now automated processing bringing in operational efficiency
• Automated alerts and reminders for informing users of any actions that are required at their end.
• Process transparency both for individual users and management.
• Record store helps future references.

 

5. In line with the Government’s manifesto on Education

• Link between Industry and academia by way of Alumni portal
• Online Assignments, Improvised Projects with students from different classes, streamlined monitoring, etc. via School Information System thus reworking the work culture of teacher training institutions with a goal to prepare committed performing teachers.
• Inspection reports and monitoring dashboards to aid real time performance audit
• Online rich reference store for students to relieve them from huge bags.

 

Source: PIB

 

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