Right to Education in India

Resources, Institutions and Public Policy
Herausgeber: Jha, Praveen; Rani, P Geetha

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Produktbeschreibung

This is one of the first volumes around the resource constraints and institutional challenges in realizing the Right to Education (RTE) in India. It outlines and analyses the processes and problems involved in the fund flow pattern and utilization of resources under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) and RTE at select districts across states.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781138947481
• ISBN-10: 1138947482
• Artikelnr.: 43679906

Autorenporträt

Praveen Jha is Professor of Economics and Chairperson at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, and is Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Informal Sector and Labor Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is also honorary Visiting Professor at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, and the African Institute of Agrarian Studies, Harare, Zimbabwe. P. Geetha Rani is Associate Professor at the Department of Educational Finance at the National University of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi. She has contributed to the financial memorandum for the Right to Education Bill under the Central Advisory Board on Education (CABE), constituted by the Ministry of Human Resources Development.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables List of Figures 1. Introduction: Setting the Context
Praveen Jha and P. Geetha Rani 2. Shifting Terrain of Public Policy
Discourses for Financing of Education: An Overview Praveen Jha, P. Geetha
Rani, Satadru Sikdar and Pooja Parvati 3. Financing Elementary Education in
Andhra Pradesh under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan: A Study on Fund Flow Pattern
and Utilization of Resources B. Shiva Reddy and K. Anji Reddy 4. Financing
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) in Punjab: Inter-District Analysis Jaswinder
Singh Brar and Sukhwinder Singh 5. Analyzing Fund Flows and Expenditure
under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan in Himachal Pradesh P. Geetha Rani and Bansi
Lal Shukla 6. Do the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Funds Hit the Target? The Case
of Kerala M. Lathika and C.E. Ajit Kumar 7. Bottlenecks in the Financial
Provisioning for Elementary Education under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan: The Case
of Lalitpur, Uttar Pradesh and Rajnandgaon, Chattisgarh Praveen Jha and
Pooja Parvati 8. Pattern, Trend and Utilisation of Funds under SSA in
Orissa: Performance Analysis of Districts Boudh and Ganjam Sailabala Debi
and Surya. N. Mishra 9. Review of SSA Fund Flow Pattern: Case Studies from
Mumbai and Raigad in Maharashtra Madhu Paranjape 10. Fund-flow Pattern
under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan in West Bengal: A Case Study of Bankura
District Archita Pramanik 11. Fund Flows and Expenditure in Sarva Shiksha
Abhiyan: A Case Study of School Based Grants at Nalanda District, Bihar
Avani Kapoor and Anit N. Mukherjee 12. Implementing Right to Education in
Uttarakhand: The Missing Links Siba Sankar Mohanty and Nilachala Acharya
13. Community Monitoring of Right to Education: a Case of Udaipur District,
Rajasthan Nesar Ahmad, Mahendra Singh Rao, Hariom Soni 14. Financing
Elementary Education for Achieving Universal Elementary Education in India:
Does it Induce or Reduce Inter-state Disparity? P. Geetha Rani