IndiaFirst: Study Notes // Dividend, Education & Skill Development schemes, National Youth Policy 2014

Census 2011: Literacy ranking

Best Performers
Total Literacy	Female Literacy
Kerala (93%) Lakshadweep (UT) Mizoram Tripura Goa	Kerala Mizoram Lakshadweep (UT) Tripura Goa

Bottom 5 States/UT in literacy

Worst performers
Total Literacy	Female Literacy
Bihar (Lowest) Arunanchal Rajasthan Jharkhand Andhra	Rajasthan Bihar Jharkhand J & K UP

Now let’s begin with educational schemes
Old schemes, organizations covered here: wp.me/p2tsJl-1zM (cost: benefit not that great).
In this new article, I’m covering schemes mentioned in Economic survey 2013 or Budget 2014.

WHO?	Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD)
Official name	National Programme for Nutritional Support to Primary Education
WHAT?	hot cooked meals
WHERE?	Class 1 to 8 Government schools, Government aided schools, Madresa, Maqtab etc.

Accountability tools used:

Social audit
Interactive voice response system (IVRS) – automated calls from state HQ to headmasters. They’ve to provide performance data on daily basis, which is automatically tabulated in computer system.

Economic Survey reforms:

Poor quality food affecting child health.
Provide Separate dining rooms to prevent rains and dust.
Teachers should only supervise. At present, they’ve to even cook the food due to staff shortage, as a result, education activity suffers.

WHO?	Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD)
WHAT?	Right to education is implemented via SSA. provides funding for infrastructure (building), services (teachers), free textbook, bags, uniforms, transport, hostel etc.
Budget 2014	Gave ~28,000 crores.

Economic Survey reforms:

Right to Education (RTE) Act mandates a school within 1 km radius of every habitation. but this has led to mushrooming of schools at certain places. Better construct one single bigger school at nearby places, with facility from class 1 to 12.
Regularize temporary teachers. Assess their performance on learning outcome of students.
Fix the shortage of toilets, safe drinking water and safai karmachari.

HRD ministry implements both these schemes
RMSA	RUSA
Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan	Rashtriya Uchhtar Shiksha Abhiyan
Targets 2017: achieve above 90% gross enrollment ratio 2020: universal retention i.e. all primary school children should reach high school. Earlier schemes for girls’ hostels, vocational education etc. merged into this schemes. Budget 2014: gave ~5000 cr.	Setup 80 new universities by merging existing autonomous colleges. Create support infrastructure for existing universities

Indian Bank Association (IBA): provides cheaper loans to all economically weaker section (EWS) students
World Bank: provides funding for technical education quality improvement.

WHO?	Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD)
WHAT?	Total 6000 new secondary schools, to absorb the primary school passout kids. 3500 model schools in educationally backward blocks (EBB), with help of state governments. 2500 models schools in normal blocks, via PPP funding.

WHO?	Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD), 2001
What?	Adult education program, main focus on women. Aim: 80% total literacy by 2012; 100% female literacy by 2014. won UNESO King Sejong Literacy Prize 2013
How	Funding given to districts having less than 50% adult literacy Provides ‘3’ R’s (i.e. Reading, Writing & Arithmetic) with skill Development program.

Jaitley did not elaborate the features of these schemes. Hence nothing much to write at the moment.

Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya	New Teachers Training Programme. (500 cr)
Jai Prakash Narayan	National Centre for Excellence in Humanities in Madhya Pradesh.
Click	virtual classrooms and online courses (100 cr) Via Communication Linked Interface for Cultivating Knowledge (CLICK)

New IITs and IIMS under budget 2014

Following Locations not important except for interview-profile based Questions

5 new IIT	5 new IIM
Jammu Chhattisgarh Goa Andhra Pradesh Kerala	Himachal Pradesh Punjab Bihar Odisha Maharashtra