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How Much Does India Spend Per Student on Education?
Recent years have seen significant changes in the landscape of elementary education (EE) in India. Yet, updated estimates on public and private expenditure on EE are not available. This paper fills the gap by providing a methodology and estimates of per student public expenditure on children enrolled in government schools, and per student private expenditure … Continue reading "How Much Does India Spend Per Student on Education?"
Closing Feedback Loops and Enhancing Accountability
Interactive Voice Response System: Closing Feedback Loops and Enhancing Accountability in the Mid- Day Meal Scheme The field notes series seeks to document the implementation of accountability mechanisms built into key government programs for service delivery. The current note summarises the key issues affecting the Mid-Day Meal Scheme in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, and suggests … Continue reading "Closing Feedback Loops and Enhancing Accountability"
School Management Committees
Section 21 of the Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009 (RTE), mandates the formation of School Management Committees (SMCs) in all elementary government, government-aided schools and special category schools in the country. The RTE Act envisions an SMC as the basic unit of a decentralised model of governance with active involvement of parents … Continue reading "School Management Committees"
New ways of conducting field surveys: Computerised data collection and responsive survey design
In November, I went for a talk at NCAER on “Computerized data collection and the management of Survey Costs and Quality” by James Wagner and Nicole Kirgis from the University of Michigan. The abstract of the talk stated that it would cover topics like responsive survey design, survey biases and ‘paradata’. Now, usually, I am … Continue reading "New ways of conducting field surveys: Computerised data collection and responsive survey design"
Achieving Total Sanitation: Measuring the Problem
With elections around the corner an issue that seems to have caught everyone’s attention is the poor state of sanitation in India. According to Census 2011 findings, only 30.7 percent of rural households have access to sanitation. Given the current unit cost of construction, this would entail over 1 lakh crores of additional expenditure (19 … Continue reading "Achieving Total Sanitation: Measuring the Problem"