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.....

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.....

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. .....

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.....

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.....

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.....

भारत की नवीनतम राष्ट्रीय शिक्षा नीति .....

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.....

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

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

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.....

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.....

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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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.....

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.....

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

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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

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

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

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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......

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.....

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

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

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.....

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

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.....

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.....

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.....

The Samagra Shiksha suffers from basic implementation issues. .....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

'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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....