Over 1,200 Kendriya Vidyalayas, 600 Navodaya Vidyalayas mapped on PM Gati Shakti portal, Lok Sabha told

More than 1,200 Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs) and 600 Navodaya Vidyalayas (NVs) have been mapped on Prime Minister Gati Shakti National Mission Plan Portal (PMGSNMPP) by the department of school education and literacy (DoSE&L), Ministry of Education (MoE), said Jayant Chaudhary, Minister of State for Education in parliament on Monday.

Responding to a question by Manickam Tagore, Congress Member of Parliament (MP) from Virudhunagar constituency, Tamil Nadu, on digital audits of Kendriya Vidyalayas and Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs) , Chaudhary said: “The Department of School Education and Literacy has onboarded PM Gati Shakti National Mission Plan Portal (PMGSNMPP). It has identified essential and desired data layers along with the attributes for these layers which comprise various school types and categories that may be shared with other Ministries/Department and States for their respective projects or decision making on School Data layers available from NMP Portal for planning.”

PM Gati Shakti national Master Plan was launched in October 2021 with a vision to “bring synergy and synchronisation in planning infrastructure”.

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Currently, there are 1,290 KVs and 662 NVs across the country. Recently, in November, the department approved 57 new KVs with a budget outlay of approximately Rs 5862.55 crore allocated to schools for the next nine years.

Further, 913 KVS and 620 NVS schools have been upgraded to PM SHRI schools across the country.

PM Gati Shakti: Mapping of schools

The minister told Lok Sabha that the purpose of this mapping is to help the department in digital audits through 41 attributes of PM Gati Shakti portal including school geoinformatic information systems (GIZ) data visualisation, school-wise and gender-wise enrolment, total number of teachers in schools, infrastructure facilities and others. The minister said, “1,222 KVs and 634 NVs are mapped on PM Gati Shakti.”

He added, “All permanent buildings, including 1,201 land parcels of Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan and 8,105 buildings as well as 659 land parcels of Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, have been mapped on the Government Land Information System (GLIS) portal.”

GLIS is a platform which maintains information regarding land and buildings of the government.