Union Minister of State for Human Resources Development Sanjay Dhotre today launched the Shala Darpan Portal of Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti.<br />''<br />''The Minister said that it is surprising how the NVS with the help of Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Noida in a meagre budget of six crore rupees.<br />''<br />''This will integrate all Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas with a common standard which includes around 636 schools and 2.67 million students.<br />''<br />''This single integrated platform has been developed for information sharing and knowledge dissemination for the 22,000 employees and over 2 lakh students across schools and offices of Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti. <br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">Addressing the gathering, Mr Dhotre highlighted the crucial contribution of Navodaya Vidyalayas and its teachers in educationally uplifting the rural children.   <br />'' <br />''CDAC, Noida Executive Director Vivek Khaneja and Commissioner of Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti  Bishwajit Kumar Singh were also present on this occasion.<br />''<br />''Shala Darpan provides an integrated platform to meet the educational and administrative needs of all stakeholders-students, teachers and parents. It is capable of sending and receiving effective dialogue between every stakeholder.<br />''<br />''The major components include integrated content management portal which consists of 636 websites of Navodaya schools across the country. It will contain information relating to the service record, transfer/posting, disciplinary action, ACR tracking and the portal will improve mess management and hostel conditions.<br />''<br />''Apart from this, it will also strengthen budget and finance management system.<br />''<br />''The best part is this portal has been designed from OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGY and hence the cost incurred was very low and up-dation cost in future will remain low.<br />''<br />''The major effect will be end to end info sharing, proper analytical details, better transparency in evaluation of teachers and students both, 654 bilingual platform for each schooland role-based access to have better evaluation at every stage.<br />''<br />''Another golden leaf is that this platform at this minimum cost abides by the Guidelines for Indian govt. Websites(GIGS).<br />''<br />''The Navodaya Vidyalayas are co-educational residential schools established by the Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti which is an autonomous organization under MHRD to provide quality modern education.</span><br />