Jammu & Kashmir had a large number of Out-of-School children (OoSC) on basis of the data collected by the Department in 2016. It comprised of two categories Never Enrolled and Dropouts. The Department of School Education J&K has initiated a comprehensive programme “TALAASH” to address this issue and aims to:
• Conduct door-to-door survey and prepare a database of all school-going age children
• Enumerate and keep track of OOSC in a timely, and quality manner, through intensive data analysis and monitoring and mainstream them
• Reduce the number of Out-of-School children through timely enrolment, regular attendance and flexible learning for elementary and secondary aged children
TALAASH application is the digitized version of the pen paper forms which allows data collection from fields. It will support real time data validation, making sure that the data collected is worthy of analysis later.
Three types of users will use this application with login facility. Each user type has specific roles to play to make the TALAASH programme a success.
These three users are as follows:
• School Teacher (Surveyor) – Will have responsibility to door to door and identify the Out-of-School child
• Head Master (Planning officer) – Will have responsibility to assign the catchment area to Surveyor and to Enrol child on their own School.
• Monitoring Officer (Zonal officer) – Monitoring and Mainstreaming of Out-of-School Children.
The application will reflect different functionalities according to the login of a user type.
Features of the Application
• Digital Survey
• Application is functional in offline mode also i.e. survey can also be done in case the application does not have internet connection, the data will be stored in application and as soon as connectivity is regained, the data will be synched to the server.
• User Friendly Interface
• Bilingual Application i.e. application supports both languages English as well as Hindi
• Multiple surveys can be conducted on the same application
• Validations have been incorporated to increase the quality of data