After independence of the country, systematic and planned efforts were needed to fulfill the national commitment enshrined under Article 45 of the Constitution for providing free and compulsory education for children upto the age of 14 years. Certain basic inputs such as identification of school-less habitations, their population and distance at which schooling facility is available were required for making planned efforts in the direction of fulfilling the said commitment. The First All India Educational Survey (AIES), undertaken in 1957 by the then Union Ministry of Education provided this information by covering all the States/UTs. Read More.....

To portray the status of higher education in the country, Ministry of Education has endeavoured to conduct an annual web-based All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) since 2010-11. The survey covers all the Institutions in the country engaged in imparting of higher education. Data is being collected on several parameters such as teachers, student enrolment, programmes, examination results, education finance, infrastructure. Indicators of educational development such as Institution Density, Gross Enrolment Ratio, Pupil-teacher ratio, Gender Parity Index, Per Student Expenditure will also be calculated from the data collected through AISHE.

A Central University or a Union University in India is established by Act of Parliament and are under the purview of the Department of Higher Education in the Union Education Ministry.[1] In general, universities in India are recognized by the University Grants Commission (UGC), which draws its power from the University Grants Commission Act, 1956. Read More.....

The essence of Education is education, which plays a significant and remedial role in balancing the socio-economic fabric of the Country. Since citizens of India are its most valuable resource, our billion-strong nation needs the nurture and care in the form of basic education to achieve a better quality of life. This warrants an all-round development of our citizens, which can be achieved by building strong foundations in education. In pursuance of this mission, the Ministry of Education (MoE) was created on September 26, 1985, through the 174th amendment to the Government of India (Allocation of Business) Rules, 1961. Currently, the MoE works through two departments. Read More.....

Copyright Web Portal is a web-based application for Registration of Copyright developed for the Copyright Office, Department of Higher Education and Ministry of Education. The application is supposed to automate the entire registration procedure from online submission, acknowledgement, generation of discrepancy letter, tracking to registration of Copyright.Copyright is a right given by the law to creators of literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works and producers of cinematograph films and sound recordings. Read More.....

The eOffice product aims to support governance by ushering in more effective and transparent inter and intra-government processes. The vision of e-Office is to achieve a simplified, responsive, effective and transparent working of all government offices.Read More.....

Earlier this package was named as Composite Payroll System (CPS). Accounts Informatics Division is one of the divisions of NIC, is providing software support for the payroll computerization. The Comprehensive DDO Package(CDDO) is developed as a generic software package, which will be used, by central govt. offices. There are innumerable Payroll Packages exist at various central government offices. But, these packages are designed to meet only the needs of the concerned central government offices.Read More.....

NPTEL is an acronym for National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning which is an initiative by seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Roorkee) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) for creating course contents in engineering and science.Read More.....

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan is one of the National Flagship programme of Government of India, for the universalisation of elementary education. Under this scheme centre give grants to states under various interventions to achieve the objective of the scheme. To implement an effective programme and its, efficient monitoring, a National portal for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan has been developed by the Ministry of Education, Government of India, in collaboration with the National Informatics Centre.Read More.....

The Web based Management Information System (WePMIS) for the Saakshar Bharat Mission has been developed by the National Informatics Centre. This application is being actively used by NLMA and the participating States for Online interactions for the following broad tasks under the scheme. Read More.....

MDM Scheme is the largest school feeding programme in the world reaching out to about 12 crore children in more than twelve lakhs primary and upper primary schools.During the first phase successfully designed, developed and executed MIS for the Mid Day Meal Scheme has been developed to facilitate to plan for the allocation of grains to the schools and to keep track about fund allocation, fund utilization, monitoring of regularity in meal serving and utilization, quality of meals served, food grains delivery and utilization, cooking cost utilization and infrastructure like kitchen shade progress etc.Read More.....