New Delhi, August 28 (IANS): Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' here on Wednesday launched Shagun, a web portal, which will carry information on the standard of education, schools and much more.
The portal links over 15 lakh schools and provides information on them. The schools linked by the portal are also geo-tagged.
"The information regarding all the schools in the country has been integrated through the portal," the minister said.
Apart from connecting 25 crore students and 90 lakh teachers, over 2.3 lakh educational websites can also be integrated to the Shagun portal, he said.
Officials said information provided by schools could be verified through third party. An app has also been developed through which students, teachers and other stakeholders would be able to send their complaints directly.
What is Shagun?
School Education Shagun is an over reaching initiative to improve the school education system. The initiative involves creating a junction in the form of a platform for all portals and websites of the Department of School Education in the Government of India and all States and Union Territories (UTs).
The word 'Shagun' is coined from two different words – 'Shala', meaning Schools and 'Gunvatta' meaning Quality.
The Department had launched the 'ShaGun' Repository and online monitoring websites with the aim to capture and showcase innovations in the elementary sector of school education and continuously monitoring of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA).
With the introduction of Samagra Shiksha from 2018-19, there is no differentiation between elementary, secondary and senior secondary levels. However, since the name 'Shagun' has caught the imagination of many people in India and abroad, it has been decided to adopt this name for this present all encompassing platform.
SE Shagun platform provides single point access to all portals and websites of the Department. Relevant information pertaining to more than 1.5 million schools, 9 million teachers and 250 million students can be accessed through this platform. Browsing through this platform, one can also learn about the schemes and their comprehensive monitoring, go through how the outcomes are measured with the help of an objective evaluation process and appreciate the best practices in the schools all over the country.
(Source: http://seshagun.gov.in/)
