- To maintain an appropriate data-base for the district which may be required for various planning
exercises aimed at the UPE/UEE/NLM goals and for monitoring progress towards these goals.
- To conduct studies with a view to giving policy advice to educational planners/administrators/DBE
regarding UEE/NLM. Some of the important areas for such studies would be:
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- Enrolment, retention and regularity of attendance of children and adult learners (especially
females, SC/ST, minorities, handicapped, slum-dwellers and other disadvantaged groups)
various factors affecting these.
- Effect of various interventions (including incentives) on the above.
- Community’s perception of and participation in the process of basic education.
- Development of norms, criteria and techniques for evaluation of Institutions (Schools
and AE/NFE Centres) of the district.
One or two educationally backward pockets of the district, which may be with-in easy reach from
the district will be specially chosen for conducting above studies as well as a lot of action
research activities. These may be called the ‘Lab. Area’ of the DIET. However, while a lot of
studies and action research will be concentrated in the lab. area, they would not be necessarily
confined to this area, and other suitable areas would also be chosen depending on the nature of
work involved.
- To provide technical assistance to educational authorities in
(i) school mapping,
(ii)
Micro-planning for UPE/AUEE in an area specific and target group specific manner,
(iii)
formation and activation of school complexes,
(iv) institutional planning for school complexes,
schools etc., and
(v) Institutional evaluation.
- To serve as the nodal branch in relation to all programmes of community involvement in basic
education, and in particular, to conduct orientation programmes for members of DBE, VECs, community
leaders, youth and other voluntary educational workers.
- To conduct appropriate programmes for Head Masters, Heads of School Complexes and Block level
educational functionaries in P & M, covering areas like leadership, motivation, involving the
community, educational administration, finance and accounting, office procedure, planning for
UPE/UEE, institutional planning etc
- To appraise the efficacy of various programmes of educational development implemented in the
district especially vis-a-vis the objectives of UPE/UEE and NLM.
- To act as the nodal branch for preparing quin-quennial and annual institutional plans and annual
self-evaluation reports for the DIET, and for liasing with the DBE.
- To provide P & M related inputs into all other programmes/ activities o f the institute e.g.
pre-service and in-service programmes for teachers, training programmes for NFE/AE personnel, Field
Interaction (including Extension) activities, Action Research etc. with special reference to the
areas listed under (3) above.
