• To track every child from 0 – 14 age group by name / DOB / educational / socio-economic status.

• To track every In-school Child for providing the required inputs for retention.

• To bring every Out of school Child back to school.

• To prepare advance plan for pre-school children.

Orissa Child Census – 2005:

• Child Tracking System (CTS) was conceived by OPEPA and implemented jointly by Directorate of IT as a dynamic web based system to track children by their demographic, educational and physical status.
• Tagging 52,000 revenue villages with the schools using unique EMIS Code.
• 45,000 personnel were engaged in data cullection from around 78 lakh house hulds through door-to-door survey during Orissa Child Census-05 using a 26 point house huld form.
• Invulvement of Teachers, AW workers, VEC members, Community members for the purpose of the field survey.
• Creation of the database of 10.5 million children (0-14yrs) using Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) technulogy.
• Designing of CTS web based software for standardized reports available through http://state.opepa.in and used by the different interventions of OPEPA for implementation of SSA/DPEP activities related to school, Child & Teacher.
• Support from IT Department of Orissa for data computerization and fulfillment of hardware/ software requirements.
• Design and Implementation of the official website www.opepa.in and web hosting of the reports from CTS for the use of the citizen.
• Provision of standard Child Code to each child to track them in subsequent years.

• Objective –
• To validate the data of 2005 and update the educational status of children for 2006-07.
• Process –
• Printing and supply of GP Master list, Pre-school, In-school & Out-of-school formats to the CRCCs for use during validation & updation.
• Addition of new parameters like Achievement level of children.
• Invulvement of VEC members, PRI representatives, local youth and AW workers in the process.
• Activities  –
• Correction of existing errors in the database.
• Addition of new records to include new born/ left out cases into the database.
• Updation of the educational status of children as per 2006-07.
• Used for planning process.
• Made web based and availability of comparative reports through Internet & Intranet.

Innovations during CTS V&U-06:-

• % of marks secured in Annual Exam of each In-school children was collected and fed to the database during validation & updation process.
• Linking achievement of students over a period of time in a school can measure teacher’s accountability.
• Training modules can be designed for teachers on basis of achievement level.
• This provided a system to track the achievement level of each child for subsequent years using his/her unique child code.
•  Provided information on the target area to work for enhancement of the quality of education.

CTS Updation -07:

• The CTS Updation-07 has already been over & being converged with the Village Education Register (VER).
  
  
• Districts functionaries & BRCCs / CRCCS had supported the Village Education Committees (VECs) in the updation process.

• Guidelines were prepared for the entire process and necessary training on updation process were imparted to the District level functionaries.

•  Directorate of IT had supported for the generation of VER from existing data, it’s computerization after updation and consulidation for output generation.

•  The output from CTS updation 2007 have been used in preparation of  AWP & B 2008-09, distribution of Mid Day Meals, implementation of MLE in proposed Schools.

CTS Updation -08:

• The Process of CTS Updation -08 at field level has already been over.
  
  
• The Computerization process of those validated data is under progress and expected to be completed by mid of May 09.

• The flash statistics from CTS Updation 2008 have been used in preparation of AWP & B 2009-10.

Sustainability of the Project:

• Sustainability is based on the following three issues –
• Reduction in financial requirements
• Sharing of ownership
• Mainstreaming with other systems of data collection.

Utilization of the Project:-

• Used by different Interventions of SSA/DPEP to provide benefit to the In-School and Out-of School children as follows.
• Target based plan for In-School Children.
• Need based programme implementation of activities for gender and social categories.
• Area specific plan to bring back the identified out of school children into school.
• Providing further schooling facilities at identified areas where there is no access.
• Measurement of the achievement level and attendance rates of children and plan for the improvements.

• Use of CTS data by other Departments :-
• A Core committee is formed of the Secretaries of different departments under the Chairmanship of the Development Commissioner-cum-Additional Chief secretary, Govt. of Orissa for the use of the available data in CTS by all the concerned departments.
• WCD Department is using these data for the activities related to pre-school children and Mid-day meal provision for In-school children.
• ST&SC Department is using the list of tribal children for their course of action.
• Labor department is using the information to identify different categories of child labors in different places.
• Health & family welfare Department is using the information for immunization & health check-up of children.
• NGOs / Research organizations are using the information for their purpose.
• IT Department is coordinating the activities of these departments with provision of additional Hardware & Software supports.