Orissa Primary Education Programme Authority (OPEPA) came is to existence as a registered society on 30th January 1996 (Regd. No. 19964/192 of 1995 – 96 under Registration of Societies Act XXI of 1860). It was created as an autonomous body initially to implement District Primary Education Programme (DPEP) a collaborative endeavor of Govt. of India and Govt. of Orissa. With the success of projects to universalize primary education elsewhere in India like those in Bihar, U.P. and Andhra DPEP through autonomous bodies in the State and thus OPEPA established.
Orissa Primary Education Programme Authority (OPEPA) has a Governing Body and an Executive Committee to regulate its activities. While the Hon’ble Chief Minister is the Ex-Officio President of the Governing Body, the Hon’ble Minister, School and Mass Education is its Vice-President. The State Project Director is the Member-Secretary of the Governing Body.
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.
