Efficiency of Elementary Education in India
Efficiency of Elementary Education in India

Author: Arpita Ghose

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-10-06

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 8132236610

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This book assesses how efficient primary and upper primary education is across different states of India considering both output oriented and input oriented measures of technical efficiency. It identifies the most important factors that could produce differential efficiency among the states, including the effects of central grants, school-specific infrastructures, social indicators and policy variables, as well as state-specific factors like per-capita net-state-domestic-product from the service sector, inequality in distribution of income (Gini coefficient), the percentage of people living below the poverty line and the density of population. The study covers the period 2005-06 to 2010-11 and all the states and union territories of India, which are categorized into two separate groups, namely: (i) General Category States (GCS); and (ii) Special Category States (SCS) and Union Territories (UT). It uses non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and obtains the Technology Closeness Ratio (TCR), measuring whether the maximum output producible from an input bundle by a school within a given group is as high as what could be produced if the school could choose to join the other group. The major departure of this book is its approach to estimating technical efficiency (TE), which does not use a single frontier encompassing all the states and UT, as is done in the available literature. Rather, this method assumes that GCS, SCS and UT are not homogeneous and operate under different fiscal and economic conditions.

Efficiency of Social Sector Expenditure in India
Efficiency of Social Sector Expenditure in India

Author: Brijesh Purohit

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-08-01

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1317663705

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Government investments in social sector has always played an important role in tackling social issues and facilitated in the alleviation of poverty. Hence, budgetary expenditure to be mobilized for such investments needs to be efficiently allocated and utilized to maximize the greatest good. This book focuses on the social sector in India and provides an overview of the sector. The book looks at 15 major Indian states between the year 2000-2011 to see how these states had invested in social sector and whether they had met the criteria of efficient social sector investment. Using stochastic frontier models, the book provides an efficiency norm and making use of this normative estimate, it compares performance across 15 Indian states and suggests important policy implications to improve the future performance of the social sector. The book adopts various quantitative techniques in the analysis and establishes that inefficient and inappropriate allocation of inputs was made in both health and education sectors. The book suggests that such problems and future challenges could be overcome by an appropriate mix of emphasis in different activities. This book will provide insight for those who want to learn more about how to build the capacity of the social sector in more efficient manner by exploring the social sector of India.

Universalisation of Elementary Education
Universalisation of Elementary Education

Author: J. Ravindra Babu

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2009-05-05

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 144381069X

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The success of the primary education system has a direct bearing on the upper primary, non-formal and adult and continuing education sectors; an efficient primary education system is expected to contribute significantly to total literacy: an appropriate rise in literacy levels improves the functioning of other systems of education. Effective delivery of primary education contributes to bettering India's HDI (Human Development Index), including our standing in the Human Development Index evolved by UNDP. This volume is a study of the District Primary Education Programme (DPEP) in one of the states of South India. It is a piece of policy evaluation research expected to contribute to the ongoing discussion of policy processes in primary schools. It specifically questions to what extent objectives such as access, retention, quality and equality are achieved by the implementation of the DPEP. Figures from before and after the implementation of the DPEP show a significant increase in enrolment levels in primary schools all over the state. Thus, the major impact of DPEP implementation is seen in enhanced access to primary schools. The study shows that the DPEP implementation succeeded in attaining the objective of equality. This can be observed from gender equality in dropout rates at various primary grades. The DPEP seems to have achieved only moderate success in meeting the objective of retention of students. The DPEP does not seem to have approached the quality objective very seriously.

Universal Secondary Education in India
Universal Secondary Education in India

Author: Jandhyala B. G. Tilak

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-07-24

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 9811553661

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This book offers a cutting-edge contribution on the importance of secondary education and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of its growth in India. Secondary education, long neglected, faces countless challenges and will require tremendous financial resources, millions of additional trained teachers, and vast infrastructure in terms of buildings, laboratories, libraries, ICT facilities, etc. The book examines these critical issues, with particular reference to the situation in India. It analyses the status quo of secondary education and discusses the strategies and approaches needed in order to universalize it. Including 20 chapters authored by eminent scholars in the field and from across the country, this book gathers the outcomes of a seminar organized by the Council for Social Development on Universalization of Secondary Education. The target audience includes policymakers, practitioners, administrators, education planners, researchers, teachers, and teacher educators with an interest in the future of secondary education.

Policy Impacts on Qualitative and Quantitative Aspects of Indian Education
Policy Impacts on Qualitative and Quantitative Aspects of Indian Education

Author: Jatinder S. Bedi

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-11-27

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9811314926

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The book focuses on the state of education and on the levels of inequality among gender, rural–urban and social groups. Taking into account the various findings from existing literature on the qualitative and quantitative aspects of education, it uses empirical findings based on a revised methodology to draw new conclusions. This revised method was devised to define the size of population eligible for enrollment and was then employed to estimate the Gross Enrollment Rate (GER) and Gross Literacy Rate (GLR) at various completed education levels, using age-wise data from the Population Census, 2011. This methodology is based on the concept that among those eligible for enrollment/literacy, a few never get chance to enrol and others achieve various levels of literacy by remaining engaged in formal or informal education up to various ages. The book comes up with findings that have deep significance so far as policy making is concerned towards improving the state of education in India. There are fourteen hypotheses that the book proposes based on the study and each hypothesis is accompanied with policy suggestions. Interestingly, one of the hypotheses is that arbitrariness of government policies creates more problems and, as such, before proposing a policy change the government needs to put in more effort and time in planning and come up with carefully chalked out processes. In addition to being a valuable resource for researchers working in this area, the book has huge policy implications and think tanks working towards improving education in India.

Indian Economy: Performance & Policies (For University of Delhi)
Indian Economy: Performance & Policies (For University of Delhi)

Author: Gopal Ji, Suman Bakhri & Anisha Bhakri

Publisher: Vikas Publishing House

Published:

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 9325986671

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The second edition of Indian Economy: Performance and Policies has been thoroughly revised and updated. The Twelfth Five-Year Plan objectives, policies, approaches and data have been appropriately incorporated at suitable places. The book is specifically designed to meet the course requirement of the paper on Indian Economy (Semester IV) for the students of BCom (Hons.) at the University of Delhi. KEY FEATURES • Data updated as per Twelfth Five-Year Plan • Adequate statistical information to help in the analysis of topics • Authentic and reliable sources of information • Questions from previous years' examinations to help students understand the pattern of questions

Forty Years of Arun C Mehta at NIEPA
Forty Years of Arun C Mehta at NIEPA

Author: Arun C Mehta

Publisher: ARUN C MEHTA

Published: 2021-10-31

Total Pages: 647

ISBN-13: 9354571131

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Prof. Arun C Mehta worked at the premier National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA), New Delhi for almost four decades (1980 to 2019) and authored numerous books, published articles in journals of repute, and written research reports based on one of the largest databases of the World, namely the Unified District Information System for Education (U-DISE) which he nurtured about two decades. He had written extensively in the areas of educational planning, education for all, demographic & enrolment projections, indicators of educational development, and data analysis. In the present book, Prof. Mehta presents a select 27 articles which are grouped into five broad headings, such as (i) Educational Statistics & EMIS (ii) Indicators of Educational Development (iii) Demographic & Enrolment Projections (iv) Educational Data Analysis & (v) Education for All. Apart, a complete list of his contribution has also been annexed. Renowned social scientist and former Director of NIEPA, New Delhi Prof. Kuldeep Mathur has written the foreword of the book. Prof. R Govinda, Prof. Marmar Mukhopadhyay, Prof. G. D Sharma, Dr. Geeta Gandhi Kingdon, Shri Baldev Mahajan, Late Shri B. P. Khandelwal, Mr, Simon Ellis of UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Montreal, Prof. Pradeep Kumar Joshi, Former Director NIEPA and presently Chairman of Union Public Service Commission and Prof. Najma Akhtar, Vice-Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi has commented on the research of Prof. Mehta.

The Indian Economy Since 1991: Economic Reforms and Performance
The Indian Economy Since 1991: Economic Reforms and Performance

Author: Prakash Alwin

Publisher: Pearson Education India

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 621

ISBN-13: 9332506299

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The Indian Economy Since 1991: Economic Reforms and Performance is an edited volume, based on the UGC’s model curriculum for ‘Indian Economic Policy’, meant for all universities in India. Each chapter is contributed by an expert in the specific area being addressed, and this book presents the policies formulated in each sector or sub-sector, and the resultant changes, during the post-reform period (1991-2008). This volume examines the impact of economic reforms on fronts as varied as the fiscal situation of government of India, state finances, money, capital market, external sector, agriculture, industry, power, health, education, employment, unemployment and poverty.