Research Under District Primary Education Programme (DPEP)

In this section research undertaken on the banner of DPEP has been presented. Each district of covered under the DPEP were provided funds annually to undertake research studies but only a few districts could launched the studies. In addition to districts and states, a good number of studies were also undertaken at the national level by the institutions, such as NIEPA, New Delhi. It may be recalled that DPEP was much more organized than the similar programmes launched by the Department of School Education & Literacy, Ministry of Education.

Not only the research studies were undertaken but the planning methodology adopted was rigorous in addition to which a number of pre-planning activities were also launched. It may also be of interest to know that the District Information System for Education (DISE) was also launched under the aegis of DPEP which has now become Unified-DISE (UDISE) and has acquired the status of the Official Statistics.

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