Now, digital Gender Atlas to map girls' edu progress

New Delhi: TIMES NEWS NETWORK





In order to monitor how various education programmes are working visa-vis gender-related indicators, HRD ministry has launched a web-based digital Gender Atlas, a tool which will map the progress on girl education throughout the country .Releasing the gender atlas on Monday , school education secretary Vrinda Sarup said, “It is a tool used for education planning and administration and helps us target a plan of action for effective implementation of programmes.“
“The atlas provides comparative analysis of individual gender-related indicators over three years and that enables a visual assessment of the change and an understanding of whether some intervention introduced in a geography at a particular point of time has worked or not,“ HRD ministry said.
Gender Atlas visualizes the vulnerability status based on composite index of three parameters such as rural female literacy and percentage of boys and girls with disabilities, particularly girls. The performance status of individual indicators can be visualized at the state and district level, differentiated by colour coding. For instance, the level of vulnerability of districts in Bihar or remote areas of Gujarat or Telangana can be measured with the digital atlas.
The atlas can be used by states, districts, block education administrators or NGOs, ministry officials said.