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data collected from field has to be verified before placing it for
the PDI and various calculations. In order to identify and lay
down the data validation mechanism for the field data collected,
a look at existing validation mechanisms would be most useful.
It is seen that this is done for different parameters of
performance collected or details gathered in multiple ways as
laid down in the guidelines and instructions by the Ministries/
Departments for that purpose. E.g.: In UDISE+ portal the data
entry is done by the respective school and the duly filled data is
maximum should be data sharing form existing administrative certified by the Principal/Head Master of the school as a 1st
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data, through APIs to be developed. The key role of the GP stage certification of the data. At the 2 level, the filled data is
Secretary for data collection and coordination at GP level is again verified and certified by the respective BRCs, Similarly,
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recognised by both. at the 3 level the data is further certified by the respective
district authorities and finally the data is certified by the State
Ease of Data Collection Project Directors (SPDs) of the respective States/UTs before
Important to the process of Data collection is the Ease of Data final submission of the data to MoE.
Collection. Naturally this would require the use of effective data
MA data is validated in the Gram Sabha. Data collected through
collection tools and seeding of data already collected / available
Anganwadis is validated in a supervisory structure. VPRP
by APIs.
survey data is again through the Gram Sabha.
The Committee decided to take up field Data collection at
Para Baithak in West Bengal is used as a forum for data
primary source, to assess the availability of data, for each of the
validation through community participation and active
data points in the entire LIF. This challenging exercise was
involvement of all relevant stakeholders.
taken up by the esteemed Member of the PDI committee Dr.
Mallinath Kalshetti, DDG, YASHADA.
While currently the entire data collection for 688 data points
was done in the field from 30 Gram Panchayats, it is to be
reduced substantially with the developing of API to draw the
data from the huge amount of data already being collected by
different Ministries/ Departments, and put in place the LGD
Code and aggregators and disaggregates to arrive at the Gram
Panchayat data. This would fall in the domain of NIC with the
Ministry of Panchayati Raj and other Ministries & Departments.

To strengthen the planning process and to maintain
Data validation
transparency and accountability a portal viz. ‘Banglar Para
While several data points may be sourced automatically from
Baithak Portal’ was developed by Panchayats & Rural
respective line agencies’ MIS via APIs, quite a few will be
Development Department, Government of West Bengal under
required to be sourced directly from the field. Additionally, for
the project ‘Digitisation of Primary Data to reflect the Human
the time API driven data exchange mechanism is being put in
Development Indices in the GPDP Process.
place, reliance on field level data collection will be maximum.
While the data captured through MIS can be processed as it is,

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