Financing elementary education in pre and post right to education period in India
By: Bhaware, Vishal and Purohit, Vasudha
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BookPublisher: The Indian Journal of Economics Description: 101(403 pt. 4), Apr, 2021: p.571-586.Subject(s): Financing, Elementary education, Right to education
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The Indian Journal of EconomicsSummary: Public expenditure on education is an important policy tool for realizing the goals of the Universalisation of Elementary Education (UEE). With the formulating of National Policy on Education (NPE), India initiated a wide range of programmes for achieving the goal of UEE through several schematic and programme interventions, such as Operational Black Board, Shiksha Karmi Project, Lok Jumbish Programme, Mahila Samakhya, District Primary Education Programme, and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan etc. Currently, the Right to Education Act 2009 is being implemented through the SSA in collaboration with the centre and the state government. The central government provides funds under the SSA programme to states, based on their demands expressed through Annual Work Plan and Budgets (AWP&B), which are appraised based on the performance of the state and availability of central funds. The study focuses to analyse financing of education particularly elementary education at all India level in pre and post RTE period i.e. during 2006-07 to 2010-11 and 2011-12 to 2016-17.The study is mainly based on secondary data collected from the website www.mhrd.gov.in. To meet the constitutional obligations arising from the right to education and to achieve universalisation of elementary education, public expenditure on education should increase to at least 6 percent of GDP and elementary education should be 3 percent of GDP. This promise remains elusive and the most afflicted in the education sector and more particularly elementary education in India is due to lack of adequate resources. The study found that even after the implementation of the RTE Act, spending on education increased with the increase in GDP, but there has been no significant increase in the share of spending. Reproduced
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Public expenditure on education is an important policy tool for realizing the goals of the Universalisation of Elementary Education (UEE). With the formulating of National Policy on Education (NPE), India initiated a wide range of programmes for achieving the goal of UEE through several schematic and programme interventions, such as Operational Black Board, Shiksha Karmi Project, Lok Jumbish Programme, Mahila Samakhya, District Primary Education Programme, and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan etc. Currently, the Right to Education Act 2009 is being implemented through the SSA in collaboration with the centre and the state government. The central government provides funds under the SSA programme to states, based on their demands expressed through Annual Work Plan and Budgets (AWP&B), which are appraised based on the performance of the state and availability of central funds. The study focuses to analyse financing of education particularly elementary education at all India level in pre and post RTE period i.e. during 2006-07 to 2010-11 and 2011-12 to 2016-17.The study is mainly based on secondary data collected from the website www.mhrd.gov.in. To meet the constitutional obligations arising from the right to education and to achieve universalisation of elementary education, public expenditure on education should increase to at least 6 percent of GDP and elementary education should be 3 percent of GDP. This promise remains elusive and the most afflicted in the education sector and more particularly elementary education in India is due to lack of adequate resources. The study found that even after the implementation of the RTE Act, spending on education increased with the increase in GDP, but there has been no significant increase in the share of spending. Reproduced
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