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va'kq oS';lfpoANSHU VAISHSECRETARYHkkjr ljdkjekuo lalk/ku fodkl ea=ky;Ldwy f’k{kk vkSj lk{kjrk foHkkxubZ fnYyh & 110 001Government of IndiaMinistry of Human Resource DevelopmentDepartment of School Education & Literacy124 'C' Wing, Shastri Bhavan, New Delhi -110 001Tel.: 23382587, 23381104, Fax: 23387859E-mail: secy.eel@nic.inForewordDevelopment of a sound information system is critical for successful monitoring and implementation ofany programme, particularly in social sectors. Design of a school information system has, therefore, beenaccorded priority from the very beginning of the District Primary Education Programme, as a result of whichthe District Information System for Education (DISE) was developed by the National University of EducationalPlanning and Administration (NUEPA), New Delhi. When Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) was launched in2001, not only was the coverage extended to all States & Districts of the country, its scope was also expandedto the entire elementary level of education. I am confident that DISE will play an important role in monitoringthe Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 in years that follow.I am happy to note that DISE has become a regular source of information on all aspects of elementary educationand, through it, information is available at all disaggregated levels such as school, cluster, block, district, stateand national level. NUEPA used to bring out a set of eight annual publications including ‘District and StateReport Cards’, ‘Elementary Education in Rural and Urban India’, ‘DISE Flash Statistics includingEducational Development Index’, and ‘Elementary Education in India: Progress towards UEE, AnalyticalReports & Tables’, which data-users and researchers found very useful. I am sure that anyone interested in theIndian education system will find the present publication a valuable resource.The year 2010 was special for DISE because its project, www.schoolreportcards.in has received two NationalAwards: E-Governance 2010 (Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, Ministry ofPersonnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, GoI) and eINDIA 2010 (Department of Information Technology,Ministry of Communication & IT, GoI) and also Manthan Award South Asia 2010. I congratulate all thoseinvolved in the process of strengthening EMIS in the country.I thank NUEPA, especially Dr. Arun C. Mehta, Professor and Head, Department of EMIS and entire DISEteam, for bringing out the present publication. I also thank UNICEF, Delhi, for consistently supporting EMISactivities since 1995.(Anshu Vaish)