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Putting Research Into Practice: Empowering Stakeholders and Finding Solutions

PAISA (Planning, Allocations and Expenditures, Institutions Studies in Accountability) is Accountability Initiative’s (AI) flagship research programme. The research focuses on making government process: planning, decision-making and fund flows in key social sector schemes transparent. Under the PAISA programme, AI runs the country’s largest citizen-led expenditure tracking survey. In December, 2015, AI conducted a PAISA survey focusing … Continue reading "Putting Research Into Practice: Empowering Stakeholders and Finding Solutions"

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State of the Nation: RTE Section 12(1)(C)

This report describes the status of implementation of the constitutional mandate under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (Section 12(1)(c)) for private unaided schools (non-minority) and special category schools to keep aside at least 25 per cent of their seats for children from economically weaker and disadvantaged sections of society at … Continue reading "State of the Nation: RTE Section 12(1)(C)"

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State of the Nation: RTE Section 12(1)(c) Provisional

This report titled State of the Nation: RTE Section 12(1)(c) purports to provide an overview of the status of implementation of Section 12(1)(c) of Right to Education Act. Section 12(1)(c) mandates that private unaided schools keep aside 25 percent of their entry level seats for children belonging to economically weaker sections and disadvantaged categories. The … Continue reading "State of the Nation: RTE Section 12(1)(c) Provisional"

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Publications from 2015

Book Chapters Chapter Title Authors Book Title Editor(s) Publisher Link Fund Flows and Expenditure in Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan: A Case Study of School Based Grants at Nalanda District, Bihar Avani Kapur, Anit N Mukherjee Right to Education in India Resources, institutions and public policy Praveen Jha, P. Geetha Rani Routledge India Click here Role of Activity … Continue reading "Publications from 2015"

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Mapping work flows of frontline education administrators: Cluster Resource Centre Coordinators in Bihar

How effectively are  Cluster Resource Centre Coordinator (CRCCs) able to fulfil their job responsibilities?  This report presents a summary of the findings from an intensive  time-use study conducted  between November 2014-15 and April  2015-16 of select CRCCs from East Champaran  and Bhojpur in Bihar  and CRCCs from three other states to understand the daily  functioning … Continue reading "Mapping work flows of frontline education administrators: Cluster Resource Centre Coordinators in Bihar"