Social Empowerment through Education
Government of Uttar Pradesh
&
National Informatics Centre, UP
Presentation to the Hon’ble Members of Jury, eMaharashtra 2013
S.B.Singh, Dy. Director General, NIC-UP
Overview
Problem Faced
Innovation
Scholarship not distributed to students in time Electronic transfer of scholarship directly to
bank a/c of students/ institutes/ panchayat
Huge undistributed funds with Institutes
No system to verify eligibility of students
Discrepancy between demand made & actual
requirement
Creation of central databases available on
NET with unique-id for all students.
Auto generation of scholarship.
Lack of transparency, duplicate & fraudulent
cases, misappropriation of funds etc.
All information available online. Districtwise, school-wise student details on NET
No data sharing with multiple departments
involved in scholarship process.
A common platform for all departments to
share data and information
No MIS to effectively monitoring the progress
Comprehensive MIS to measure the
impact of scholarship and for planning
Students to fill forms every year and run
around for scholarships
No need to fill forms every year. Auto
tracking for attendance, dropout etc.
Difficult to implement schemes for higher
professional education
Disbursement not a constraint for students
aspiring for higher education
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Problems Faced
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A huge task – serving more than 4.2 crore beneficiaries
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More than the total population of 24 states of the country
More than combined population of 9 states. (Census 2011)
Covering a geographical area of around 2.4 lakh sq kms
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A state with 75 District, 820 Blocks,314 Tehsils, 52000 GPs, 705
Towns, 4300 Institutions, 160 Banks & 12000 Branches
Spreading across 1 lakh villages
Encompassing 2.5 lakh schools (urban & rural)
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Annual budget of approx. Rs. 2000 crore with involvement of multiple
departments (Social Welfare, Minority Welfare, Planning, Education etc.)
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Reach right & deserving candidates within time and without leakages
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Eliminate middlemen and remove bogus and fraudulent cases
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Identify, adopt, assist & track students till he passes out. Eventually
creation of employable talents through scholarships.
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Build a comprehensive MIS for the government for monitoring, control
and planning.
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Innovation – ICT Led Initiative
Concept
 Initiated as ‘Project of Hope’ for students of weaker section of society and to uphold their
‘Right to Education’.
 The web based solution designed on latest centralised processing architecture. It
ensures 24x7 availability of information. (http://scholarship.up.nic.in).
 Financial Inclusion – Banks opened zero balance accounts for students for direct
transfer of scholarship to their accounts.
 A fully transparent system - all information pertaining to student, school etc is now
available on Web
 Extensive GPR done to simplify the processes and change archaic rules for scholarship.
Auto generation of scholarship demand.
 Tracking of students from primary stage till the time he /she attains professional
qualification.
Implementation process
 A massive exercise done for collecting & compiling data of more than 4 crore
beneficiaries from 2.5 lakh schools. Data regularly updated by district officials.
 G.O. from Chief Secretary, GoUP making e-Scholarship operational from academic year
2007 - issued on 22nd June 2007.
 Auto generation of scholarship demand by the system half yearly.
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Benefits – Impact on Stakeholders
Students & Parents
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Assured of timely transfer of funds into their bank accounts.
Not required to fill a new form for Scholarship every year
No need to run around different offices for scholarship.
Not required to attach multiple certificates (caste, domicile, income
etc.) at different stages. Only birth certificate and BPL family ID
needed
Schools, Institutes
• Schools & Gram Panchayats finds it much easier to distribute funds,
as it is directly credited to their bank account before specified dates.
& Gram Panchayat
Sponsoring Deptts • Have more time and statistics to assess the impact of scholarships
• Improved verification processes to confirm eligibility criteria
Social Welfare,
Minority Welfare & • Reduction in fraudulent transactions.
• There are no cases of funds lying unutilized
Backward Class
• Less strenuous work, higher productivity of staff and reduced errors
Welfare & State
in computation & calculations.
Government
• Automatic generation of scholarship demands and faster financial
transactions
Education&
Planning Deptt.
• The online availability of information helps the department in
monitoring enrollment, attendance and dropout rates.
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Impact on Children
Before the Innovation
After the Innovation
Had to fill forms every year for scholarship
Not required to fill forms every year A
unique-id is given to every student
Attach multiple certificates with the
scholarship application form
Only Birth certificate & BPL Id is required
Run around different offices for
scholarship disbursement
Details of scholarship is available online as
soon as it is transferred to bank a/c
In spite of different scholarship
programmes the dropout rate was not
coming down due to large gap between
allotment and actual benefit reaching the
beneficiary
 Children get the scholarship on time and
directly in their bank account.
 Improved enrollment and better
attendance
No tracking mechanism of students and
the progress
Proper tracking is done till higher education.
No. of children impacted
363 lakh children every year
e-Scholarship - a comprehensive tool towards Education Reforms in the state
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Cost & Revenue Model
 Scholarship is a Government funded project
 A total sum exceeding 2021 crore disbursed electronically through the
system every year
 One time cost of 3.96 cr was incurred in Data Entry of all the beneficiaries
before the launch of Project in 2007-08.
 The recurring cost of 1 cr annual is for updation of the available data. All
other expenses are met from the departmental budget.
 NIC developed the portal free-of-cost and all technical support is provided by
NIC at the State Centre and Districts.
Costs (Rs. lacs)
One time costs : 396 lakh (towards one time Data Entry)
Recurring costs: 100 lakh (Annual Expenditure towards up dation
Total
: 696 lakh Since launch in 2007-08
The State Government was able to save a lot of revenue by deleting duplicate and
bogus beneficiaries. The amount was utilised to increase the number of beneficiaries
as scholarship is a budgetted activty
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Sustainability & Scalability
Sustainability factors
 Scholarships are distributed by the Government annually in two installments. eScholarship
portal was launched in 2008 and is running successfully from last 5 academic sessions.
 The concept of electronic transfer of funds to beneficiary bank a/c has been very
successful in preventing leakage of government funds and is adopted for other projects as
well
 Many state governments (AP, MP Uttarakhand etc.) have shown willingness to adopt this
model for the distribution of scholarship in their respective states.
 The project has paid rich dividends both to the government and citizens and that is a
critical sustaining factor.
Scalability & Replicability factors
 The scholarship web portal is already functional and hosted at SDC after security audit.
The same can be used by other states after some customisation
 Component based approach has been used for developing the portal
 eScholarship is an IT based system and can be easily replicated in other states.
 The system has already been demonstrated to Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment
and Ministry of Tribal Affairs, GoI where senior officials of various states were present to se
how the same cam be replicated across the country.
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Other Relevant Information
 eScholarship, UP is the first of its kind project to have used IT based initiative for
electronic transfer of scholarship directly to bank a/c of beneficiary
 It manages the scholarship system right from the primary stage till the student
attains professional qualifications and becomes an asset for the society and the
country
 Nearly 3 lakhs persons working day & night to accomplish the task in a record
time of three months
 The project also facilitates abut 20 lakh students belonging to the BPL families to
pursue higher education and professional courses such as B.Tech, M.Tech,
MBBS, MBA every year
 Scholarship programme ensures that money is not a constraint for students
aspiring for higher studies & professional courses. Scholarship amount of
Rs.35290 lakh and Fee Amount of Rs.118477 Lakh reimbursed in 2011-12 to
students.
Year
No. of Students getting State Scholarship
Engineering & Equivalent
Medical & Para Medical
2011-12
139245
15573
2010-11
117460
14276
2009-10
109706
13641
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SAKSHAM is a Journey
…not an end
Thank you
S.B. Singh
Deputy Director General &
State Informatics Officer
National Informatics Centre, U.P. State Unit, Lucknow
sio-up@nic.in
http://scholarship.up.nic.in
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