Fund and Reform Tracker launched by RUSA

Prakash Javadekar launches the Fund and Reform Tracker of RUSA

Question: Who has developed recently started fund and reform tracker App?
(a) Tata Consultancy Services
(b) UGC
(c) National Higher Education Campaign
(d) Ministry of Human Resource Development
Ans: (c)
Related facts:-

  • On April 17, 2017, Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar launched the fund and reform tracker Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA).
  • This tracker will monitor RUSA projects.
  • Through this, all the steps from the approval of any project to the successful completion of the project will be monitored.
  • Reform Tracker will be the report card of the details of higher education policies, plans and best practices of the state.
  • The objective of this app is to reconsider classrooms, to move ahead with time and technology and to achieve all the objectives in the field of education, to involve all stakeholders in the negotiation and to give utmost importance to their positive and effective suggestions.
  • This facility will be available to thousands of vendors spread across the country, to the central government, state government’s higher education stakeholders and other institutional persons.
  • Limited / unlimited rights to use this app will be given on the basis of the role and functionality of each stakeholder.
  • The main features of this app are:
    1. It will safely maintain any comment in this reference and any information received about the funds allocated on the basis of this project approval board, funded by the Central and State Governments on the basis of installments, on the basis of funds allocated to institutions, main projects, appointed vendor and payment made to them.
    2. Payments made in accordance to Componet presents to us a comprehensive depiction of fund to be done in the RUSA project whether it is a subsidy funding infrastructure initiative.
    3. This app provides information about the approved fund, current amount, amount utilized, etc.
    4. The stakeholder can get full details of the funds released by the Central and State Governments.
    5. The timing stamp provides information about the work and progress of any project and shows the picture of the ground reality of any project in front of us.
    6. The tracking system is the soul of this app and each initiative has been given a separate identification number (ID number). This will give information about how a thought has arisen and through which steps it has been fully evolved.
  • National Higher Education Campaign is a centrally sponsored scheme of Higher Education Department, Ministry of Human Resource Development.

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