School Education Shagun Portal

The Shagun portal combine various autonomous institutions that play a vital role in executing and overseeing government policies in India. Some of the key institutions featured on the Shagun portal are as follows: 

1. National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT): It is responsible for developing curriculum and textbooks to improve quality of educational content and concepts. 

1. Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE): This is a national level board that conducts examinations and promotes academic excellence in affiliated schools. 

1. National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS): It provides open and distance learning programs for students who are unable to attend regular schools. 

1. Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS): It provides uniform quality education mainly for children of government employees. 

1. National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE): It ensures and maintains standards of teacher training programs and institutions. 

1. Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS): It aims to help rural students by providing free quality education. 

1. National Bal Bhavan (NBB): It aims to nurture creativity and activities related to art, culture, and science among children.  

1. Central Tibetan Schools Administration (CTSA): It oversees functioning of Tibetan schools across different states. 

Schemes Associated with the SE Shagun Portal

The Shagun portal acts as a comprehensive gateway to various government schemes that focuses on improving all areas of school education across India. It brings together several major schemes under one roof, including: 

1. Mid-Day Meal Scheme 

1. National Scheme of Incentives to Girls for Secondary Education 

1. Scheme for Providing Education to Madrasas and Minorities 

1. Samagra Siksha 

1. National Awards to Teachers 

1. National Means-cum-Merit Scholarship Scheme 

Resources Available on the SE Shagun Portal

There are various educational resources available digitally on Shagun portal. They are: 

1. Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing (DIKSHA) - It is digital learning resource portal that provides lessons, online quizzes, and training modules. 

1. National Initiative for School Heads and Teachers Holistic Advancement (NISHTHA) - It aims to deliver programs related to teacher training so that quality of student learning outcome can be improved. 

1. ePathshala – It is an application on which various educational resources like audios, videos, textbooks, and flipbooks can be accessed from anywhere. 

1. National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER) - It provides study materials for primary, secondary and higher secondary levels in numerous Indian languages. 

Monitoring Mechanism Under the Shagun Portal

1. The Shagun portal has two major repositories, one for good practices among different states, their photographs and newspaper articles and another to track important educational indicators. 

1. The data for monitoring various indicators is drawn from the UDISE+ (Unified District Information System for Education Plus) application. 

1. The geographical details about the schools are tracked via GIS (Geographic Information System). 

1. The portal has dashboards that offers bird’s-eye-view of scheme implementation in various schools. 

1. The Project Monitoring System helps in monitoring of financial processes such as appraisal of annual plans, sanction issuance, and others. 

1.  The Shagun portal also showcases best practices, case studies, positive stories that are improving performances in various school and encourage healthy competition among States and Union-territories. 

Advantages of the Shagun Portal

1. The Shagun Repository boost community participation by providing access to best practices across India so that it can be applied in other schools as well. 

1. The Vidyanjali application on Shagun portal helps to organise a virtual meeting of school authorities with organisations wanting to donate for the development of educational institutions. 

1. Students will be able to access digital study material from portals such as DIKSHA, ePathshala and others. 

1. The parents, public and policy makers will get necessary information about the school and their performances on the portal.