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Mission Vatsalya

Mission Vatsalya is a Centrally-Sponsored Scheme (CSS), which aims to achieve child protection and welfare, aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It lay.....

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Young Indian Women are being Let Down in Labour Market. What Governments Must Do

Create more formal sector jobs in labour-intensive industries, improve skills for women with secondary and primary school level education, and bolster social sector spending t.....

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Budget 2023: Learning Losses During COVID Cannot be Compensated by the Inadequate Allocation for School Education

During the pandemic, allocations for school education were reduced. The increase in funding in this budget had to be of an order that would mitigate the damage done. .....

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Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is Government of India’s (GoI’s) flagship scheme to provide at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year.....

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Samagra Shiksha

Samagra Shiksha is Government of India’s (GoI’s) school education programme covering preprimary to higher-secondary levels. Launched in April 2018, the scheme is the primary vehicle to implement t.....

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Gender Gap in the Labour Market of India’s North‑East: 2011–2012 to 2019–2020

There is a broad agreement that India’s North-Eastern Region (NER) is relatively better off in gender-based development parameters. That being so, one should expect advantageous labour market outcom.....

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Challenges in Access to Secondary Education in India

India’s latest National Education Policy has envisaged universal access to education by 2030. However, while enrolment is high in elementary schools, access to and uptake of.....

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Regulation of Non-State Actors in School Education in India

First published as background paper prepared for the Global Education Monitoring Report on Non-state actors in Education –South A.....

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Understanding Policy Focus on Child Protection

First published in DCPCR's Children First: Journal on Children's Live; available here. Union budget 2022-23, announced the renami.....

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Understanding the Implementation of Pre-Primary Education in India

The National Education Policy 2020, completes two years this year. Among its areas of focus has been the introduction of pre-primary education, also referred to.....

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Decline in Unemployment Rate in 2020-21: A Reason to Rejoice or Worry?

The newly-released Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), 2020-21 documents an important employment trend. During the one-year period between July 2020 (3 months after th.....

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In a Glance: Social Protection to Safeguard Citizens against Vulnerabilities

Social Protection includes policies and programmes implemented to prevent, manage and overcome adverse conditions and challenges that lead to vulnerability or loss of well-being. Different social p.....

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Enrollment Falls In Private Schools Due To Covid-19-Induced Income Shock

Latest government data show an increase of almost four million in government school enrollment and a decrease of three million in private school enrolment between 2019-20 and.....

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A Missed Milestone: How India has been Unable to Boost Public Education Spending to 6% of GDP

The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, India’s guiding policy document on achieving equitable and quality education for all, has reiterated the need for increasing.....

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Budget 2022 Increases Education Spending, Samagra Shiksha Scheme Key For School Reopenings

The budget for Samagra Shiksha has grown by 20% but is still lower than projected budgets of the education ministry .....

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Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi

Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) is Government of India’s (GoI’s) income support scheme, under which all landholding farmers receive up to ₹6,000 per year to supplement their financi.....

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Samagra Shiksha

Samagra Shiksha is Government of India’s (GoI’s) school education programme extending from the pre-primary to higher-secondary level. The scheme was launched in April 2018 to ensure equitable and.....

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Child Protection Services (CPS) Scheme

Even as large parts of government budgets and efforts are directed towards fighting the pandemic, it is important to ensure that children are not overlooked. Critical during this time is going to be e.....

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Why will Financing of School Education in Bihar be Challenging in 2021?

The government plays a major role in Bihar’s school education system, with 78 per cent of the state’s total school-going children enrolled in government or governme.....

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Samagra Shiksha

Samagra Shiksha - an integrated scheme for school education, is Government of India’s (GoI’s) school education programme extending from pre-school to senior secondary stages. The scheme was launch.....

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Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi

Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) is Government of India’s (GoI’s) income support scheme, under which all landholding farmers get up to Rs. 6,000 per year to supplement their financial.....

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Social Security for Informal Workers in India

The brief explores India’s labour market policies on provisioning of social security to informal workers in the unorganised sector......

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परिवारों में शिक्षा खर्च के मामलों में लड़कों को प्राथमिकता

स्कूली शिक्षा में लैंगिक अंतर को दूर करने के लिए भारत ने एक लम्बा सफर तय किया.....

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Creating Livelihood for Migrant Labourers: Efforts by UP and Bihar

The pandemic-induced lockdown exposed the extreme vulnerability of casual-wage earners and especially, migrant labourers. Unable to sustain in the cities, many returned.....

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Why is Securing Newly-Enrolled Students in Bihar’s Government Schools a Challenge?

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous children from poor migrant families across the country were forced to drop out of school and move back with their parents.....

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Boys Still Preferred in Families’ Education Spending Decisions

India has come a long way in bridging the gender gap in school education. Both boys and girls now attend schools more than before (the share of children attending eleme.....

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School Education Finances: An Overview of 8 States

In June 2020, Accountability Initiative published a study that provided an in-depth understanding of government school education financing in India. It analysed expenditures acros.....

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School Education Financing Needs Rethink in the Current Fund-Crunch Situation

India’s public school education system is currently confronting multiple challenges. First, the urgency to adapt to ICT-enabled modes of education delivery during the.....

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Association between Public Investment in Education and Learning

Public school education in India is funded through both Union government as well as the states’ own budgetary resources. The erstwhile Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) had.....

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State Education Finances: A Deep-Dive into School Education Finances in Eight States

This study is an attempt to provide an in-depth understanding of school education financing in India through an analysis of expenditures incurred across eight states from FY 2014-15 to FY 2017-18......

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COVID-19 Response: Focus on ICT-based Education Delivery Raises Question of Accessibility

The four phases of the COVID-19-induced lockdown abruptly closed schools to curb the pandemic. Consequently, given the prospect that children will not return to schools.....

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Documenting the Story of India’s Migrant Distress

Eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar are home to some of India’s poorest people. The crisis has hit them hard. .....

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कोरोना आपदा और बिहार में शिक्षा की स्थिति

पिछले चार महीनों से COVID-19 का प्रकोप इस तरह से फैल रहा है कि लगभग पूर�.....

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State Government's Relief Packages for Casual Labour Welfare

On 24th March, the Government of India (GoI) directed all states and Union Territories (UTs) to make use of the unutilised cess funds collected by Labour Welfare Boards to support unorganised construc.....

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Will children get attention in budget?

The latest National Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Policy that focussed on children under 6 was in 2013. .....

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Samagra Shiksha

Samagra Shiksha - An Integrated Scheme for School Education is Government of India’s (GoI’s) school education programme extending from pre-school to senior secondary classes. The scheme was launch.....

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Child Protection Services

Child Protection Services is Government of India’s (GoI’s) flagship programme to provide preventive and statutory care, and rehabilitation services to children in need of care and protection and t.....

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Usage of Open School Data for Accountability in Public Education in India

How public data on schools can strengthen both internal and external accountability mechanisms and also be utilised by parents and communities to make informed decisions about schools.   &n.....

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School Consolidation in Rajasthan: Implementation and Short Term Effects

This paper attempts to add to the given literature by undertaking a detailed analysis of school consolidation process in Rajasthan. It seeks to answer the following questions:- First, what are the.....

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Samagra Shiksha

Samagra Shiksha - An Integrated Scheme for School Education, is Government of India’s (GoI’s) school education programme extending from pre-school to senior secondary classes. The scheme was launc.....

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Samagra Shiksha (Post-Interim Budget)

Samagra Shiksha - An Integrated Scheme for School Education, is Government of India’s (GoI's) school education programme extending from pre-school to senior secondary classes. The scheme was launche.....

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Samagra Shiksha GoI, 2019-20 (Pre-Budget)

Samagra Shiksha - An Integrated Scheme for School Education, is Government of India’s (GoI's) school education programme extending from pre-school to senior secondary classes. The scheme was launch.....

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Immense Potential of ‘Open’ School Data Untapped in India

Imagine knowing the details of how children are learning in classrooms and what facilities they are being provided in schools to experience a better learning environment. In many countries across the.....

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Sustainability and Accountability Issues of Common Service Centres

Wouldn’t it be great if each citizen in the remotest of parts of our country has easy access to all key government services? By easy access, I mean that citizens are able to use these services by vi.....

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Accountability in Public Education

'Open’ school data or official data on schools which is easily available to the public is one tool through which the public can be aware about the status and functioning of schools. We explain what.....

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Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, GOI, 2017-18

The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) is the Government of India’s (GOI) flagship elementary education programme. Launched in 2001, it aims to provide universal primary education to children between the a.....

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Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA)

Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) is Government of India’s (GoI) flagship secondary education programme. The scheme was launched in March 2009 to augment access to, and improve the quality.....

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Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA)

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) is the Government of India’s (GoI) flagship elementary education programme. Launched in 2001, it aims to provide universal education to children between the ages of 6 to.....

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NAS 2017: A Much-Needed Move

The focus of education policymakers on outcomes, especially learning outcomes, is steadily rising. This is the first blog in a blog series to discuss paradigm shifts in the field of assessm.....

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India: Using Open School Data to Improve Transparency and Accountability

The main assumptions underlying the research are as follows: First, open data initiatives are powerful tools to improve transparency, hold schools accountable, and reduce corruption risks in education.....

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