The decentralisation blueprint is ready. Nuts and bolts must now be put.
Author: accountability
School reforms buried under paperwork
As the example of 16 block education offices in four states shows, school officials, burdened by paperwork, find little time for meaningful interaction with students, teachers and parents
How Will—Unprepared—States Handle A $29-Billion Budget Bonanza?
Mind the gap—and find the money to bridge it
Good way to implement RTE
A transparent system of admission which doesn’t allow schools to ‘cherry-pick’ students, and gives parents the right to choose schools, and streamlining reimbursements, will go a long way in the implementation of Section 12(1)(C)
How data can mislead in analysing social policy
India needs a transformation in how data is measured and analysed to form policy
Policy goes missing amid slogans
In villages where the number of households as per the baseline survey is less than the actual households, the toilet building exercise poses an allocation challenge: Who gets the limited number of toilets?
Sloganeering apart, one interpretation of this government’s approach to social policy is that it quite simply doesn’t want to have one