Public Provisioning for Elementary Education in India - Hardcover

Jha, Praveen K; Das, Subrat; Mohanty, Siba Sankar; Jha, Nandan Kumar

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761936661 ISBN 13: 9780761936664

Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

The book probes into the intricacies in financing of education by state governments and highlights the major challenges confronting them. In order to understanding these intricacies, the book also analyzes the planning process with regard to expenditure on education and the process of flow of funds starting from the Central Government budget up to the implementing agencies at the district level. The latter is attempted through a tracking of budget expenditures and the budgetary and planning processes in the current flagship program of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) across four selected states viz. Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, and Rajasthan.

About this title

About the Author:

Praveen Jha is on the faculty of the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has been a visiting faculty at the University of Bremen, Germany since 1999. His major areas of research interest include economics of education, labour economics, agricultural economics and public finance with special focus on the developing countries. He has authored/edited a number of books and monographs, the most recent among which is Public Provisioning for Elementary Education in India (Sage, 2008), and has published several articles in journals published in India and abroad. He has been the honorary economic advisor to the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability, New Delhi, since its inception. He was a member of the Task Force on Labour Laws, constituted by the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector (NCEUS) and a member of the Committee on State Agrarian Relations and the Unfinished Task in Land Reforms, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India. He also works closely with people’s movements and labour organizations in India.

Review:

The book looks at the functioning of the SSA in some states and also the constraints in achieving the goal of universalization of elementary education in the country...It will be of interest to both specialists and generalist. A useful contribution.

Author: Journal of Educational Planning and Administration

This study will be of immense help to the policymakers, academics and social activists, interested in education in general and elementary education in particular. It looks at the measures required for strengthening the ability of the states to step up public expenditure on education, and the role of Centrally Sponsored Schemes in education. At the end, it also presents some recommendations to be undertaken by the Central and state Government for universalizing the elementary education in India.

Author: South Asian Journal of Management

This book offers important insights for policymakers, academia, and social activists interested in ‘Input-Process-Output-Impact’ of State intervention in the education sector in general and elementary education in particular.

Author: Free Press Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0761936661
• ISBN 13: 9780761936664
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 456