It was released by Aapti Institute and Mozilla foundation with funding from United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

• School education data include enrollment rates, student-teacher ratios, attendance, assessment results, etc.

Significance of school education data

• Can be utilised for framing targeted policies and interventions.
• Can lead to personalised learning and improved educational outcomes.
• Will promote efficient allocation of resources.

Issues related to data backed education system in India

• Lack of Integration among diverse data sets (E.g. distrust in the findings of surveys such as , National Achievement Survey and  Annual Status of Education Report)
• Digital divide especially in rural and underprivileged regions, leading to data gaps 
• Labour intensive nature of data collection.

Recommendations

• Establishment of  a centralized data collection agency for the annual collection of educational data
• Incentivize teachers undertaking data entry tasks through financial incentives.
• Strengthening of infrastructure and capacity by effective budgeting and training of teachers.
• Creation of school leaderboards based on effectiveness in utilization of collected data.