Union HRD Ministry to launch ASMITA, student tracking system

The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) has decided to launch ASMITA, a student tracking system programme.

ASMITA is acronym for All School Monitoring Individual Tracing Analysis and shall be launched under Shala Asmita Yojana (SAY).

Key Points

SAY aims to track the educational journey of school students from Class I to Class XII across the 15 lakhs private and government schools in the country.

ASMITA will be an online database which will carry information of student attendance and enrolment, learning outcomes, mid-day meal service and infrastructural facilities among others.

Students will be tracked through their Aadhaar numbers and incase those not having unique number will be provided with it.

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