Summary:
It helped us make plans to bring out-of-school children back to the mainstream. Important links such as that for the child population of state and e-sishu projects are not providing up-to-date information. As per the data last fed into the system, more than 1.2 lakh children out of the 5 lakh-odd in the age group of 6 to 14 were out of school in 2008-09. You are requested to instruct your respective block education officers to download the list of out-of-school children and update the same,” reads Punia’s letter to the officers.Besides failing to maintain the Child Tracking System, the OPEPA has failed to maintain its own website and the e-despatch system for which it received the National e-Governance Award in 2007. There is no information on the same for the years that followed.“The statistics gave us an insight into the situation on the ground..