Shala Darpan Portal will bring transparency in NavodayaVidyalayas: Sanjay Dhotre

New Delhi: Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Shri Sanjay Dhotre launched Shaala Darpan portal, an E-Governance school automation and management system for Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS) in New Delhi today. Thissingle integrated platform has been developed for information sharing and knowledge dissemination for the 22000 employees and over 2 lakh students across schools and offices of Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti. Commissioner of Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti Shri Bishwajit Kumar Singh and Executive Director of C-DAC Shri Vivek Khaneja were also present on this occasion.

While addressing the gathering Shri Dhotre highlighted the crucial contribution of Navodaya Vidyalayas and its teachers in educationally uplifting the rural children. He added that the teachers along with the non-teaching staff serve these rural children round the clock, in remote and even in difficult geographical locations. And because of such sustained round-the-clock involvement with the children, they are able to provide all-round development, not just scholastic acheivents, to these children.Shri Dhotre further added that the comprehensive portal, Shala Darpan, will not only make different processes of Navodaya Vidyalayas very smooth, but it will also bring transparency.

ShaalaDarpan is an end to end e-Governance school automation and management system. It has been implemented at Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti as the first major initiative to enable automation of all activities of the country’s largest residential schooling system through a single umbrella – 636 schools, 8 Regional Offices, 8 NLIs and Head Quarter.

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

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

Components of School Information and Management System:

1. Student Management Information System
2. Parent Guardian Information System
3. Class & Teacher Management System
4. Subject Management System
5. Time Table Management System
6. Attendance Monitoring with a mobile app
7. Hostel & Mess management system for residential schools
8. Student Health Card to monitor student health and vitals
9. Assignment & Project Management System
10. Exam & Results system
11. Activities Management System

System Stake-holders

The stake holders of the system include the following:

1. Officers of NVS can do the following:
   1. Manage their courses better
   2. Manage the entire activities in NVS schools in an efficient manner
   3. Create a information rich content store for future reference
   4. Manage their personal records better
   5. Have easy single point access to information shared across the offices of NVS
   6. Senior management can manage the courses, funds, etc. better with the aid of analytical dashboards
2. Students can access their own personal records, information rich content, their entire life in NVS as a single visual album, etc. with greater ease

External Audience:

1. Citizens wishing to know about NVS and their working can now visit the single Integrated Content Management Platform
2. Parents of students can get to know the life of their students inside JNV with a single click.

Government can study the working of NVS through up to date data.