The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) is set to undertake an exercise to monitor the learning outcomes of around 3 million government school students of Classes 3, 5 and 8.
This is believed to be one of the biggest surveys undertaken by any government or private agency in the country thus far.
The sample size of the National Achievement Survey (NAS) has always remained between 100,000 and 200,000 since it was launched in 2001-02.
The National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT), which conducts the survey once in three years, has been asked to cover 3 million students in