UDISE+ · PARAKH · ULLAS
How UDISE+ grew, the UDISE code / PEN / APAAR, the 2024-25 headline data, PARAKH’s four mandates and the PRS 2024, and ULLAS with its fully literate States.
The Story: How It Grew
| Year | What happened |
|---|---|
| 1994-95 | DISE — District Information System for Education — started under the District Primary Education Programme (DPEP). It covered only primary schools. Housed at NIEPA, New Delhi |
| 2000 onwards | Expanded with Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan to cover the whole elementary stage |
| 2012-13 | DISE (elementary) and SEMIS (secondary) were merged into one system — UDISE, "Unified DISE". A single Data Capture Format, one offline software, one data-entry point, one nodal officer for SSA and RMSA. UDISE acquired the status of Official Statistics |
| 2018-19 | Management moved from NIEPA to the Department of School Education & Literacy, Ministry of Education, with NIC providing the technology. Renamed UDISE+. The system went fully online and real-time, replacing paper forms |
| 1 July 2021 | The first UDISE+ report (for 2019-20) was released |
| 2022-23 | The biggest methodological change — the system moved from school-wise consolidated data to individual student-wise data |
| 2024-25 | Report released 28 August 2025 — teachers crossed 1 crore for the first time |
| 2025-26 | Report released 7 July 2026, in both the existing and the NEP 2020 stage formats — 1,02,73,020 teachers, overall PTR 24:1 |
A small fact that gets asked: the report for 2018-19 was never published — it is the only year between 2005-06 and 2020-21 for which no report exists.
Why DISE was needed in the first place: before it, educational statistics suffered from a shortage of qualified staff, multiple overlapping questionnaires, deliberate non-response and wilful mis-reporting, and long delays in collection and printing.
The rest of this note
- HOW THE THREE FIT TOGETHER
- What It Is, In One Sentence
- The Story: How It Grew
- THE BASICS
- THE THREE NUMBERS YOU MUST NOT CONFUSE
- THE MODULES
- THE ANNUAL CYCLE, AND WHAT YOU MUST DO
- THE LATEST PUBLISHED DATA: UDISE+ 2025-26 ★
- THE PREVIOUS REPORT: UDISE+ 2024-25
- WHAT IS NEW IN 2025-26 AND 2026-27
- WHAT UDISE+ IS USED FOR
- CRITICISM AND LIMITATIONS
- QUICK REVISION
- PARAKH
- ULLAS
- QUICK REVISION: PARAKH AND ULLAS
- LIKELY QUESTIONS