The Child Tracking System implemented by Orissa Primary Education Programme Authority (OPEPA), has received the Prime Minister’s Award for excellence in Public Administration for the year 2006-2007. The award was conferred by the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh at a function on the occasion of Civil Service Day.
The CTS has been developed to track the educational and
socio economic status of around 1.2 crore children between 0 to 14 years of age group in Orissa and to provide them & free elementary education. It was conceived during 2005, where through Orissa Child Census-2005 the information was collected from door-to-door survey and regularly updated in subsequent years. It not only identifies the children but also helps the organization to provide the real benefit in terms of Schooling facilities to them. Being a part of Project e-Sishu of OPEPA, it gives focus towards Universalisation of Elementary Education (UEE) in Orissa. Each child has been provided with unique child code to track their status.
The system was developed by Orissa Computer Application Center (OCAC), the IT Directorate through it’s software partner M/S CSM Technologies, Bhubaneswar and managed by the Management Information System (MIS) unit of OPEPA.
Shri Deoranjan Kumar Singh, State Project Director of OPEPA has received the award along with the medal from the Hon’ble Prime Minister.
