IMPACT OF E-GOVERNANCE IN SCHOOL EDUCATION IN ODISHA: AN OVERVIEW

Abstract

E-governance is an integral part of the Right to Education Act’s implementation, planning, monitoring, and overall management of different interventions. Implementation of the Right to Education Act for every child in the range of six to fourteen years has adopted e-governance as a transitional strategy to strengthen the elementary education system process. The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of E-governance on elementary education performances. The study seeks to measure the impact in delivering the output, redress grievance, learning output, and enhancing the institutional and individual performance especially to track the enrolment of girl-children. This study focuses on capturing the innovative methods under e-governance, such as the Child Tracking System, School Student Helpline, Private School Web Portal, and School Quality Monitoring System which is helpful to measure the increasing trend of enrolment, to redress the grievances related to violation of children Right to Education, to understand the level of learning and to regulations of private schools in Odisha. This study will administer survey questionnaire, and conduct open-ended individual in-depth interviews and focus-group discussions to explore information around performance and learning indicators. Various measures such as in the areas of planning, mainstreaming of out-of-school children, distribution of uniforms, textbooks, and mid-day meals, and human resource management. In doing so, the study analyses how some of the ways and means of e-governance are creating a more improved system to enhance the capacity of institutions and individuals as well as to monitor and manage the implementation of activities at the elementary level. This paper provides insights into the key challenges faced by the system to effectively implement the processes and scope and space for government in education in Odisha at large.