Selected statistical data on education, covering a period of five years, has been put in NICNET. This data can now be accessed through all terminals connected to NICNET. The educational statistics data covers a wide range of information in the field of education.
Projected population of school-going children of the age group of 0-6 years, the number of educational institutions, enrolment by stages/classes in schools and colleges, number of teachers and enrolment by type of institution, schedule castes/ schedule tribes studying in various schools and colleges and in which stage, enrolment ratio of students belonging to schedule castes/schedule tribes and budgeted expenditure (Reserve Account) of the Education and other departments are some of the information parameters available. The information is also available on a state/ union territory basis.
This database can be invoked by giving the command "ED" at the SYSTEM! prompt of the NEC S-1000 at Delhi, from any user-id.