Dr. SRIDHAR SRIVASTAVA, , Joint Director,
NCERT
Chairman, National Institute for Open Schooling, NOIDA,
India
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Dr. Srivastava, Joint Director, NCERT and Chairman, NIOS, has
experience of about 27 years of active service which includes, as
Lecturer in Statistics(1993-2001) at Mahatma Gandhi Chitrakoot
Gramoday Vishwavidyalaya; Reader in Edu. Statistics (2001-2006) and
Professor of Educational Survey (2006 onwards), at NCERT. His
experience as Lecturer in Statistics includes teaching courses in
statistics to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Science,
Engineering, Agriculture, Rural Development and other streams.
He has experience of active policy level engagements with state
governments and agencies in the area of school education and
large-scale assessment surveys under SSA and RMSA. He provides
academic support in conducting National and State level training
programmes for state and district level educational administrators.
He has served as Head of the Educational Survey Division(ESD), Head
of Planning & Monitoring Division(PMD) and Dean(Coordination)
of NCERT and was a member of the Working Group for National Sample
Survey (NSS) 75th Round (July 2017-June 2018) devoted to
"Household Consumer Expenditure and Household Social Consumption
(Health and Education)" , 2016. He was member of the
Development Team for the National Document 'Learning Outcomes at
the Elementary Stage'. He was also involved through projects of the
department, in exploring the options for addressing issues of
delay, uniformity and quality in education statistics being
produced at national level. He has been conducting as well as
delivering resource lectures in training programmes for capacity
building in Statistical Methods, Sampling Techniques, Research
Methods and Data Quality Management; and has been planning the
course outline and developing the training manual for countrywide
trainings.
Dr. Srivastava has done all his university education from
Banaras Hindu University and earned B.A. (Hons.) in Statistics,
M.A. (Statistics) and a Ph.D. in Statistics.