PunarNirmaan2020

Vipul Jain Mohsin Shaikh Deep Gala

Rishabh Soni Ganesh Gite

Team Name:

• Financial Problem

• Infrastructural Constraints

• Quantity & Quality of Teachers

• Lack of Motivation

• Lack of accountability

• Out of school Children

• Sanitation

• Social Issues

• Political Issues

Problems faced by Primary Education sector in India

The national average is about 1

teacher to every 34 students,

but in states such as

Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh

and West Bengal 1 teacher

works with more than 60

students.

Sixty-five out of 100 schools

have common toilets in India;

however only one out of four

schools in Arunachal Pradesh,

Assam, Chandigarh, Delhi,

Jammu & Kashmir,

Jharkhand, Orissa and

Rajasthan have this facility.

Solution-1 (Financial Problem)

“India has made the largest progress in

absolute terms of any country in the world

reducing out-of-school (children) numbers

from 20 million in 2000 to 2.3 million in 2006,

and (around) 1.7 million by latest data (2011),”

Unesco‟s latest Education For All Global

Monitoring Report.

1. Financial aid to parents of poor & below poverty line background students

2. Scholarships, Freeships schemes to be run at primary school level

3. Timely transfer of funds to needy from government, corporates, NGO‟s

4. Automation solutions for donation and charity programmes

Solution-2 (Administrative System)

The Central Board of Secondary Education

The State Government Boards

The National Open School

The International School

District Primary Education Program

Education Governing Bodies

• Promotion of equality: It could be achieved by providing equal access and equal opportunities to children

• A common educational structure (10+2+3) for the whole of India

• Opening of primary schools in remotest tribal area for promotion of education in tribal people

• Development of curriculum and study material in the language of remote tribal people

• Constant Review and Evaluation: Review of the implementation of the parameters of the policy every two years

• Involvement of voluntary groups and communities (students, professionals, retired) for school improvement programmes

• Easy and Mandatory accessibility of books and e-books at minimum costs to all sections of students (at libraries as well)

Solution-3 (Educational Policy)

Solution-4 (Provision of Teachers)

Management

Approach

Origin of Public

Management Problem

Remedy Strategies to Deal with

Teacher absenteeism

Hierarchist Poor compliance with

rules and procedures;

Weak system of authority

to elicit accountability

Tighter procedures; greater

„managerial‟ grip

Regular monitoring by

designated supervisory staff;

using cameras to monitor

teachers; laying down code of

ethics for teachers

Egalitarian Abuse of power by higher

level officials

Empowerment and

participation of people at

the bottom

Granting of powers to village-

level decentralized bodies for

monitoring and supervision

Individualist Faulty incentive

structures; monopoly

provision

Introduction of better

incentives and

disincentives to service

providers; Introduction of

competition

Performance based pay for

teachers; Vouchers in

educational Provisioning

Fatalist Inherently unpredictable

and chaotic nature of

social organisation and

public policy processes

Ad hoc solutions; Putting

parallel structures/devising

other mechanisms that

circumvent the core

problem

Creation of a separate para-

teacher cadre

Teachers’ absenteeism is mainly because of lack of interest and insufficient remuneration policies of

the government. To combat this, we would suggest recruitment of only voluntary groups and

enthusiasts who would want to get into these schemes to contribute to the primary education

improvement and development process of the country.

Solution-5 (Shift System)

In view of the shortage of teachers and school buildings, it is desirable that the

Shift system be adopted in India as is done in some other countries like

Germany, United States, Japan, China, Denmark, Australia, etc. and classes be

held for some children from 7.30 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. and for others from 1.00 p.m.

to 5.00 p.m.

Shift system will prove extremely helpful to farmers and labourers also. Their

children will get time both for education and for helping their parents in

supplementing their incomes. No doubt the work to teachers will increase but

they can be satisfied by providing extra pay. Moreover the teachers for these

schools will be volunteers who love to do their parts in contributing towards a

better aindia.

Solution-6 (Special Type of Schools)

In India there are nearly 12 crore people of scheduled castes and nearly 5

crore tribal people. These people have remained cut-off from education

since long. Now some emphasis is being given on their education by the

Government. Provision has been made to give them some grants for

purchasing books, besides stipends and scholarships.

These special schools will cater to the needs of these remotely located

children and enhance the quality and reach of education to every bits and

corners in the country.

The volunteers who opt for moving into these remote special schools to be

incentivized by the govt.. Public cooperation for the education of these

people is very necessary.

Solution-7 (Reforms in Curriculum)

PRIMARY SCHOOL

CURRICULUM

Subjects

English

Mathematics

History

Geography

Science

Visual Arts

Music

Drama

Physical Education

Social, Personal and

Health Education

It is essential to introduce reforms in the curriculum

of primary education along with the efforts to develop

and make it compulsory. The traditional and

unilateral course should be changed and a local craft

should be included in it so that it may become more

interesting and helpful to children.

It should not be put up on them as a burden. They

should be given a chance to take these subjects up or

not on their own. It should not be a binding factor on

them to qualify in every subject. The idea is to

inculcate and develop what they are naturally good

at.

The National Curriculum Framework for Teacher

Education of 2009 recommended longer preparation

for teachers, but the B.Ed. curriculum structure

continued to be for a single year. There is also a lack

of enough skilled trainers and preparation to develop

skills, abilities and attitudes to teach students.

Solution-8 (Increase in the Number of Schools)

There were 228,994,454 students enrolled in different recognized schools of the

country with a 13.67% growth in student's enrolment from Class I to XII.

This is an increase from 20.30 crore students enrolled in 2002. Encouragingly,

there is a 19.12 % increase in girl's enrolment.

There was 26.77% increase in total number of schools in the country during

2002-09. Maximum growth rate was seen in upper primary schools (49.15%),

followed by higher secondary schools (46.80%), secondary (28.95%) and

primary (16.68%). The survey captures more than 13 lakh (13,06,992)

recognized schools across the country in each habitation, village and urban

areas, out of which more than 84.14% are in rural areas.

Solution-9 (Sanitation)

The lack of toilets affects girls‟

school attendance. Of India‟s

700,000 rural primary and upper

primary schools, only one in six

have toilets, deterring children

especially girls from going to

school.

Despite the Government and UNICEF‟s best

efforts, diarrhoea remains the major cause of

death amongst children, after respiratory-

tract infections. Unhygienic practices and

unsafe drinking water are some of its main

causes. More than 122 million households in

the country are without toilets.

We propose two solutions:

1. A mandatory routine for sanitation education in primary schools everyday

2. Mobile toilets at every local school based on shift timings

Solution-10 (Increase in Teaching Load)

In response to the demand from the teaching

fraternity and students' parents, the state education

department has changed the training schedule of

primary school teachers. The training of more

than two lakh primary teachers across 34,000

government schools in the state will no longer be

scheduled during school hours, but only during

vacations.

The practice of providing six-

hour training to primary

school teachers was followed

on first Saturday of every

month during school hours

(from 7 am to 1 pm) at every

cluster resource centre in each

block.

References

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/primary-school-teachers-to-get-training-only-

during-vacations/1119048/

http://www.mapsofindia.com/india-education.html

http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/nitin-desai-right-to-principals-

112051700004_1.html

http://www.mapsofindia.com/india-education.html

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-01-

22/news/36483408_1_enrolment-higher-secondary-schools-primary-schools

http://ddp-ext.worldbank.org/EdStats/INDpub01.pdf

http://www.indiaschoolfund.org/ISF/about/about-solution.html

http://www.younglives-india.org/files/policy-papers/need-for-systemic-reform-in-

education