In order to collect the annual school information and to meet the data processing needs of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, MIS wings have been established in all the DIETs and at State Project Office. These MIS wings have been fully equipped with requisite Computer Hardware & Software along with professional/ trained manpower.

The detail of hardware in the SPO and in the Districts is as under :-
Every Non-DPEP district have (one Server & seven Nodes), two laser printers, one Dot Matrix Printer and one UPS, whereas DPEP districts (Chamba,Kullu,Sirmour & lahaul-Spiti) have 8 PCs, 4 printers (Laser-2, Dot Matrix, Inkjet) and one UPS. State Project Office has 2 Servers and 12 Nodes, 5 Printers,(3 Laser & 2 DMP) and 2 UPSs. Besides this every officer at State Project Office has been provided with one computer. All computers at State Project Office are connected through LAN.
Software
Window-NT 4.0 Server, MS Office 97, Office XP, Office 2003 Professional, Visual-Foxpro, Oracle, DISE, STEPS Internet connection with multi-user Broad Band facility is installed at State Project Office. All the SSA offices have internet facility at their respective DIETs.
Man power
There is one post of MIS Incharge, One Asstt. Programmer and two data Entry Operators at State Project Office and in each district one post of MIS Incharge and two data entry operators have been sanctioned.
District Information System for Education (DISE) and State Educational Planning system (STEPS) software has been implemented in all the districts and State level.
The MIS staff is trained from time to time at National and State level to take up MIS under SSA.
School information as on 30th September of every year is being collected through DISE data capture format up to 8th class from all the schools in the state and the reports are being generated and data is submitted to GOI every year during the month of December/January.
DISE data thus collected is being used in the preparation of Annual Work Plan & Budget of SSA and for other future planning of education department besides other departments.
State Project Office (SSA) has published a pocket size booklet "Educational Statistics 2005-06" based on DISE data as on 30-9-2005 and census-2001for the first time. Now this has been made an annual feature. This booklet is distributed to all teachers, schools, clusters, blocks and districts. Copies of the booklet are also distributed to all other departments and other states besides important offices in GOI. A detailed Analytical report based on the DISE data is also published every year since 2006-07. A Flash Statistics book based on time series district wise DISE data was published and shared with all the stakeholders.
5% Random Sample Checking of DISE Data is got conducted in two selected Districts on rotation basis through an independent agency. The report submitted by the independent agency is shared with GOI (NUEPA). The broad findings of the survey indicate that there is very meager variation in the two sets of data collected by two different agencies at two different point of time for the same date i.e. 30th September.
list of Blocks in Himachal Pradesh
List of Clusters in Himachal Pradesh
YEAR-WISE DISE DATA
DISE Data as on 30-9-2003
DISE Data as on 30-9-2004
DISE Data as on 30-9-2005
DISE Data as on 30-9-2006
DISE Data as on 30-9-2007
DISE Data as on 30-9-2008
DISE Data as on 30-9-2009
Year wise Dropout Rate
List of Govt. Primary Schools with Enrolment, Teacher as well as facility in the Schools in respect of Himachal Pradesh
List of Govt. Middle Schools with Enrolment, Teacher as well as facility in the Schools in respect of Himachal Pradesh
List of Govt. Sec. and Higher Sec. Schools with Enrolment, Teacher as well as facility in the Schoolsin respect of Himachal Pradesh
Download DISE Data Capture Format(DCF) for the year 2011-12 : This information is to be given as on 30-9-2011 for all the schools from classes I-VIII.