Orissa Primary Education Programme Authority (OPEPA) came in to existence as a registered society on 30th January 1996.The School & Mass Education(S & ME) department in the Government of Orissa has the responsibility to achieve the goals of universal elementary education (UEE). The S & M E dept operates through two agencies namely Directorate of Elementary Education (DEE) and Orissa Primary Education Programme Authority (OPEPA) to realize the goals of UEE. While DEE manages the entire manpower of teachers, inspectors & administrators, OPEPA implements the flagship program of SSA in the entire state. There are about 66.21 lakhs children in about 64551 educational institutes.
APPEAL TO THE CITIZEN OF ORISSA
Right to free and compulsory elementary education is now a fundamental right for every child in the age group of 6-14 years. In order to achieve this it is very much required to track each & every child in the state. We had conducted a household survey in the month of October 2005 where all the households were covered and information related to 0-14 years children were captured. But we were not able to capture cent percent households due to some unavoidable circumstances like absence of guardian in the house during survey. We request you all to check your information and suggest us if there is any kind of mismatch in your data. You can give us feedback on the data collected. Once we get your feedback we will check the data with the information we have captured during household survey and verify it.
We request your cooperation in making the child information correct and error free.