Integrating Navodaya Vidyalayas with common standard, HRD minister launches Shala Darpan Portal

New Delhi, November 6: With an aim of integrating Navodaya Vidyalayas with a common standard, Union Minister of State for Human Resources Development Sanjay Dhotre today launched the Shala Darpan Portal of Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti.

 

The portal will integrate all Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas with a common standard which includes around 636 schools and 2.67 million students. It provides an integrated platform to meet the educational and administrative needs of all stakeholders-students, teachers and parents. It is capable of sending and receiving effective dialogue between every stakeholder.

The major components of Shala Darpan include integrated content management portal which consists of 636 websites of Navodaya schools across the country. It will contain information relating to the service record, transfer, posting, disciplinary action, ACR tracking and the portal will improve mess management and hostel conditions. Apart from this, it will also strengthen budget and finance management system.

The major effect will be end to end info sharing, proper analytical details, better transparency in evaluation of teachers and students both, 654 bilingual platform for each schooland role-based access to have better evaluation at every stage.

 

Another golden leaf is that this platform at this minimum cost abides by the Guidelines for Indian govt Websites(GIGS). The Minister said that it is surprising how the NVS with the help of Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Noida in a meagre budget of six crore rupees.

The Navodaya Vidyalayas are co-educational residential schools established by the Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti which is an autonomous organization under MHRD to provide quality modern education