This column analyses the current status of implementation of Section 12(1)(c) of the Right to Education Act, and suggests ways to overcome hindrances in effective implementation and make the education system more inclusive.
Category: Op-Eds
The wrong way to fix government schools
Solution is not to force people with power to participate in government schools, but, to grant power to the people who already do
The Post-Office State
As the example of education shows, India’s bureaucratic reforms are falling short of maximising governance – See more at: http://www.caravanmagazine.in/perspectives/post-office-state-education-bureaucratic#sthash.XamSwY5P.dpuf
Deconstructing Union Budget 2015-16: what has changed?
The budget has left unanswered some critical questions about the future of key social sector schemes
In the hands of the States
The decentralisation blueprint is ready. Nuts and bolts must now be put.
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