Shiksha Setu Axom

What is Shiksha Setu Axom?

Shiksha Setu Axom is the digital platform that runs school administration for the School Education Department, Government of Assam, built and operated by Samagra Shiksha Axom. Shiksha Setu was launched on 25 December 2022 and exists as both a mobile application and a web application.

It is important to be clear at the outset about what Shiksha Setu is not. Shiksha Setu is not a scholarship, not a stipend and not a benefit scheme with an application form. It is a governance system. Readers arriving from a list of "Assam government schemes" often expect a bridge course for out-of-school children or a cash transfer, and there is neither. What Shiksha Setu does is give the department a single, live, verified picture of every school, every teacher and every student in the state.

Samagra Shiksha Axom describes it as a comprehensive digital platform carrying 360-degree information on schools, staff and students for the School Education Department, Assam.

Main features of Shiksha Setu Axom

• AI facial-recognition attendance for more than 50 lakh students and teachers, time-stamped and geo-fenced to 250 metres of the school premises.
• A unified digital registry of students, teachers and schools.
• An online leave management system, through which more than 21 lakh leave applications have been processed.
• Student transfer processing, with more than 12 lakh transfers completed.
• Predictive analytics used to identify dropout risk and optimise teacher deployment.
• Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) assessment tracking.
• Uniform supplier management modules.

The department's stated result is blunt: the system "has been able to remove the problem of proxy teachers, unauthorized absenteeism of teachers, and ghost students".

Who uses Shiksha Setu and who is not eligible?

Who uses the platform:

• Teachers and headmasters of Assam's government and provincialised schools, who mark attendance, apply for leave and maintain student records.
• Block and district education officials, who monitor school-level data.
• State Mission Office staff at Samagra Shiksha Axom and at the Vidya Samiksha Kendra.
• Students, who are enrolled on the registry by their school and whose attendance and assessment data sits on the platform.
• Parents, indirectly, through updates on their child's attendance and school activity.

Who cannot apply:

• No individual citizen can apply for Shiksha Setu, because it is not a benefit. There is no beneficiary list, no eligibility criteria and no money attached to it.
• A student cannot self-register. Enrolment on the registry is done by the school using the child's Aadhaar number and the school's UDISE code.
• A teacher cannot create their own account. Logins are issued through Samagra Shiksha Axom and are tied to a posting.
• Private unaided schools outside the state system are not part of the platform's core registry.

Anyone searching for a "Shiksha Setu application form" or "Shiksha Setu scholarship amount" is looking for something that does not exist. If the underlying need is support for a child who has dropped out of school, the right route in Assam is the Special Training and bridge-education provision under Samagra Shiksha for Out of School Children, not Shiksha Setu.

What is needed to use Shiksha Setu?

How to apply for a Shiksha Setu login and use the platform

1. Obtain credentials from your Block or District Mission Office of Samagra Shiksha. Logins are issued against a posting, not requested by an individual.
2. Install the SHIKSHA SETU AXOM app on an Android device, published by Axom Sarba Siksha Abhijan Mission, or open the web application on a school computer.
3. Log in and confirm your school using its UDISE code, then verify that the staff and student lists on the registry match the school's actual roll.
4. Enrol new students in the app, entering their details and Aadhaar so the record syncs to the state server immediately.
5. Mark daily attendance through face capture. Stay within 250 metres of the school premises, since attendance outside the geo-fence will not register.
6. Apply for leave online through the leave management module rather than on paper, and track approval in the same place.
7. Process student transfers through the transfer module when a child moves school, so the child stays visible on the state registry instead of appearing to drop out.

Parents who want their child's attendance or progress information should ask the class teacher or school head, who can read it from the platform.

What is the Vidya Samiksha Kendra?

Vidya Samiksha Kendra (VSK) is the layer that turns Shiksha Setu's data into action. VSK has been operational since 1 April 2024 and functions as a Command and Control Centre monitoring activities aligned with the National Education Policy 2020.

VSK runs from the State Mission Office with 38 staff members across monitoring, call centre and academic divisions. It reads data through an Integrated Dashboard Platform (IDP) organised around six areas — attendance, assessment, accreditation, adaptive learning, administration and artificial intelligence.

Its regular activities include real-time academic monitoring on those dashboards, administering and analysing the Periodic Assessment Test (PAT), tracking NIPUN foundational literacy and numeracy progress, issuing teacher-facing report cards with performance insights, running call-based interventions that lift participation, and sending daily SMS alerts to administrators on platform usage.

Samagra Shiksha Axom describes the combined Shiksha Setu and VSK ecosystem as enabling a practical data-to-action approach for classroom-level improvement planning.

What recognition has Shiksha Setu received?

Shiksha Setu Axom received the Prime Minister's Award for Excellence in Public Administration in 2024 in the Process Re-engineering category, and a Gold at the National Award for e-Governance 2024. The platform is also listed among Digital India initiatives.

How Shiksha Setu affects students and parents in practice

For a family, Shiksha Setu changes three things quietly but concretely.

Attendance is real. A teacher who is not physically at the school cannot mark themselves present, because the face capture is geo-fenced to 250 metres of the premises. Communities that historically dealt with absent teachers have a system that records this without anyone having to complain.

A child who moves does not vanish. More than 12 lakh student transfers have been processed on the platform, which means a family moving district can carry the child's record with them instead of the child dropping off the rolls.

Dropout risk is spotted earlier. The platform runs predictive analytics to flag dropout risk from attendance patterns, and the Vidya Samiksha Kendra makes call-based interventions on that basis rather than waiting for an annual survey.

Common problems and where they get resolved

• Attendance not marking. Almost always location or network. The device must be within 250 metres of the school with location services on.
• Face not recognised. The staff or student photograph on the registry needs re-capture through the school head.
• Student missing from the registry. The school must enrol or transfer the child; a parent cannot do it.
• Leave application stuck. Follow it through the approving authority in the leave module, then the Block Mission Office.
• Login not working. Contact the Block or District Mission Office. Reset is not available to the public.

Help and grievance redressal

• Samagra Shiksha Axom toll-free grievance line: 1800-345-3525
• State Mission Office: 0361-2386452, ssaassam@rediffmail.com
• Address: Office of the Mission Director, Samagra Shiksha Axom, Kahilipara, Guwahati 781019, Assam
• District Mission Office of Samagra Shiksha in your district headquarters
• Vidya Samiksha Kendra call centre, reachable through the State Mission Office

Shiksha Setu is free to the schools and staff who use it. No citizen should pay any agent for "Shiksha Setu registration", since no such paid service exists.