Uttar Pradesh Scholarship Management System website

"SAKSHAM" Scholarship Management System , 

Uttar Pradesh – National Informatics Centre, Govt. of India
NIC
Project Category: Government Initiative
Sub Category: Government Sector Initiative In Education
Reference No. WES2013/awards/142
Details of the Applicant:
Name: Shyam Bihari Singh
Designation: Deputy Director General
Organization: National Informatics Centre. Govt. of India
Address: 6th Floor, Yojna Bhawan,
City: Lucknow
State: Uttar Pradesh
Country: India
Zip Code: 226001
Organization Website: http://up.nic.in

Details of the Agency implementing the Project/Initiative:
Name of the Organization: National Informatics Centre, Govt. of India
Address: 6th Floor, Yojna Bhawan,9, S.N.Marg,
City: Lucknow
State: Uttar Pradesh
Country: India
Zip Code: 226001
Head of Organization: Shyam Bihari Singh
Head Designation: Deputy Director General
Website:  http://scholarship.up.nic.in

Details of Programme /Project/Initiative:
Brief Description:
Government disburses Scholarship which is an incentive to the students to inspire them to continue their studies and make them connected with main stream of education. It is a means to reduce the dropout rate. ‘Saksham’ was initiated as a project of hope for children belonging to the weaker sections and uphold their right-to-education. The project was aimed to reach the right and deserving candidates within time frame and without leakages, increase transparency in distribution of scholarships, provide speedy transfer of scholarships to the students, prevent frauds, minimize misappropriation of funds, build a comprehensive MIS for the Government & devise a tool for proper monitoring, control & planning for state government. It is the first of its kind project in country to have used IT based initiative for electronic transfer of scholarships directly to the bank account of beneficiaries. It manages the scholarship system right from the primary stage till the student attains professional qualifications. The project uses the inherent strength of Internet and its excellent outreach and feed back capabilities for ushering in transparency in system. It has streamlined the distribution of scholarships to the nearly 4 crores students of from Class 1 to PG courses in any discipline
Objective:
The portal provides anywhere, anytime access to information and extends a common platform to all concerned departments and facilitates sharing of data amongst the stake-holders. Various reports and statistics provided on the portal help the concerned departments ( Social Welfare, Backward Welfare & Minority Welfare) to effectively monitor the progress at all levels and makes decision-making a lot easier. Initiated as ‘Project of Hope’ for students of weaker section of society and to uphold their ‘Right to Education’. 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.
Target Group: More than 4 crores students from all categories ( Scheduled caste, Scheduled tribe, Other Backward class, Minority and General) of economically weaker sections from across the state. The physical summary of number of students benefited during the…
Geographical Reach within India: All over Uttar Pradesh Area: 2.41 lakh sq km Population: 19.9 crore (17% of total country’s population) Revenue Villages: 97,134 Gram Panchayat: 52,028 Commissioneries: 18 Districts: 75 Schools: More than 2 Lakhs Institutions & PG Colleges : 400
Geographical Reach outside India: Not Applicable
Date From which the Project became Operational: 30-8-2007
Is the Project still operational?: Yes

List 5 achievements of the programme/project/initiative:
1. The project also facilitates abut 20 lakhs students belonging to the BPL families to pursue higher education and professional courses such as B.Tech, M.Tech, MBBS, MBA every year. In 2011-12 scholarship amount of approx 46045 lakh and fee amount of 155402 lakh was reimbursed by the government through the system.
2. The “Saksham” system ensures timely transfer of scholarship directly to the bank accounts of students and does away with repetitive paperwork. The project has already benefited more than 40 million students from OBC, SC, Minority Community and General category. Around 1900 crores are being electronically distributed through the system annually.
3. The “Saksham” provides a common platform to all the departments (social welfare, minority welfare, backward class welfare, education & planning) involved in the scholarship management process.
4. substantial savings in cost and time, reduced mal practices and, above all, an efficient & transparent system
5. Tracking of student from primary stage to till the time he/she attains professional qualifications
List 5 Key challenges faced while implementing the project/programme/initiative and how they were overcome:
1. Uttar Pradesh is a very large state and multiple departments involved in distribution of scholarship. And there was no sharing of data as there were no common platform. Scholarship not distributed to students in time and Huge undistributed funds with Institutes — Electronic transfer of scholarship directly to bank a/c of students/ institutes/ panchayat
2. No system to verify eligibility of students— Creation of central databases available on NET with unique-id for all students and all information available online. District-wise, school-wise student details on NET.
3. Lack of transparency, duplicate & fraudulent cases, misappropriation of funds etc.— A common platform for all departments to share data and information.
4. No data sharing with multiple departments involved in scholarship process- Comprehensive MIS to measure the impact of scholarship and for planning
5. Data collection and data entry of such a huge volumes of data in stipulated time.- massive exercise have been done for data collection and data entry.
Documents publishing URL: http://scholarship.up.nic.in/sakshamwriteup.htm