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Study of Girl Child Enrolment & Retention in Rural Schools in Madhya Pradesh Mott MacDonald Poverty Monitoring & Policy Support Unit (PMPSUS) Poverty Monitoring & Policy Support Unit (PMPSUS) State Planning Commission I Floor, Vindhyachal Bhawan Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh- 462 004 Study of Girl Child Enrolment & Retention in Rural Schools in Madhya Pradesh June 2009 Mott MacDonald Pvt. Ltd. A-20, Sector 2 NOIDA – 201 301 Uttar Pradesh India Tel: +91 120 254 3582 - 85 Fax: +91 120 2543562 Study of Girl Child Enrolment & Retention in Rural Schools in Madhya Pradesh Mott MacDonald Poverty Monitoring & Policy Support Unit (PMPSUS) Study of Girl Child Enrolment & Retention in Rural Schools in Madhya Pradesh Issue and Revision Record Rev Date Originator Checker Approver Description Nabaneeta Rudra Anisur Rahman A 15.04.09 Archana C. Moumita Biswas Shoma Majumdar Draft Report Rajnish Kumar Bandhusona Das Moumita Biswas Anisur Rahman Revised draft B 03.06.09 Archana C. 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Study of Girl Child Enrolment & Retention in Rural Schools in Madhya Pradesh Mott MacDonald Poverty Monitoring & Policy Support Unit (PMPSUS) List of Contents Page EXECUTIVE SUMMARY a-z 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Study Area - Madhya Pradesh 1 1.2 Education Status - Madhya Pradesh 1 1.3 The Client - Poverty Monitoring and Policy Support Unit 3 1.4 Project Brief 3 1.5 Brief Detail of Study conducted by ASER 3 2 THE ASSIGNMENT 4 2.1 Study Objectives 4 2.2 Scope of the Present Study 4 2.3 Approach and Methodology 5 2.4 Team Mobilisation 5 2.5 Estimation Procedure 19 2.6 Limitations of the Study 20 3 INTER-LINKAGES BETWEEN SCHOOL EDUCATION 21 3.1 Existing Framework 21 3.2 State School Education Department 21 3.3 Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan 29 3.4 Schedule Caste & Schedule Tribe Welfare Department 42 3.5 Status of Enrolment 51 4 PRIMARY SURVEY OUTPUT 56 4.1 Profile of Sampled Household 56 4.2 Age Wise Distribution of Household Population 58 4.3 Status of Education in Households 60 4.4 Profile of Sampled Schools 61 5 STATUS OF ENROLMENT & RETENTION OF GIRL CHILD 76 5.1 Status of Education in Population Up To 16 Years 76 5.2 Response of Households Whose Girls have never gone to School 82 5.3 Response of Households Whose Girls are Going to School 84 i C:\Documents and Settings\rud49027\Desktop\Girl\Final Report 14th September.doc Study of Girl Child Enrolment & Retention in Rural Schools in Madhya Pradesh Mott MacDonald Poverty Monitoring & Policy Support Unit (PMPSUS) 5.4 Response of Households Whose Whose Girls are drop-out 91 6 QUALITY OF EDUCATION 95 6.1 Access to School 95 6.2 Perception on Education 96 6.3 Implementation of Educational Programmes at School Level 101 6.4 Training of Teachers 103 7 NGO PARTNERS IN EDUCATION 105 7.1 MV Foundation 105 7.2 Microsoft- Project Shiksha 105 7.3 United Nations Children's Fund 105 7.4 SAMAVESH: Community Based Participatory Programme for strengthening Elementary Education 106 7.5 Naandi Foundation: Ensuring Children Learn 107 7.6 Madhya Pradesh Consultancy Organization Limited 108 7.7 Pratham 108 7.8 Education Development Centre (EDC) 109 8 ACHIEVEMENTS & BOTTLENECKS 110 8.1 Achievements and Best Practices for Ensuring Girl Child Retention 110 8.2 Achievements and Best Practices for Ensuring Girl Child Enrollment 112 8.3 Bottlenecks and Key Issues 113 9 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 115 9.1 Enhancement of role of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan 115 9.2 Enhancement of the Role of Panchayati Raj Institutions 115 9.3 Reforms in Education Programme Management 115 9.4 Improvement in Facilities 118 9.5 Strengthening Anganwadis and Balwadis 119 9.6 Developing a Holistic Programme for Promoting Meritorious Girls Childs 119 9.7 Reforming Education System 119 Figures and Tables Figure 2.1: Methodology 6 Figure 3.1: Organisation Structure of School Education Department, Madhya Pradesh 22 Figure 4.1: Facilities Available in the Schools contacted 65 Table 2.2: Selected Sample Districts and Blocks in each Division of Madhya Pradesh for the Study... 9 Table 2.3: Total Sample for Primary Survey......................................................................................... 11 Table 2.4: Overall Weight Table........................................................................................................... 14 ii C:\Documents and Settings\rud49027\Desktop\Girl\Final Report 14th September.doc Study of Girl Child Enrolment & Retention in Rural Schools in Madhya Pradesh Mott MacDonald Poverty Monitoring & Policy Support Unit (PMPSUS) Table 3.1: District Wise Primary and Upper Primary Schools in Madhya Pradesh.............................. 23 Table 3.2: Financial Performance of State Education Department Schemes ........................................ 28 Table 3.3: Alternative Educational facilities in Madhya Pradesh (2007-08) ........................................ 30 Table 3.4: Status of Residential facilities in Madhya Pradesh (2007-08) ............................................. 34 Table 3.5: Financial Status of SSA, NPEGEL & KGBV in Madhya Pradesh (In Rs. Lakhs) ............. 37 Table 3.6: Financial Performance of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Schemes................................................ 39 Table 3.7: Institutions Run by Tribal Development Department .......................................................... 43 Table 3.8: Institutions Run by Schedule Caste Department.................................................................. 43 Table 3.9: Residential Schools of Schedule Caste & Schedule Tribe Welfare Department in Madhya Pradesh.............................................................................................................................. 44 Table 3.10: Financial Performance of Educational Schemes of Schedule Caste & Schedule Tribe Welfare Department ( Rs in Lakhs).................................................................................. 47 Table 3.11: Financial Performance of Tribal Welfare Department Schemes........................................ 49 Table 3.12: Status of Enrolment and Teacher Student Ratio in Schools in Madhya Pradesh (2006-07) (in Number)....................................................................................................................... 52 Table 3.13: Status of Educational Indicators in Madhya Pradesh (2006-07)....................................... 54 Table 4.1: General Profile of Household............................................................................................... 56 Table 4.2: Age Wise Distribution of Household Population................................................................. 59 Table 4.3: Educational Profile of the Household .................................................................................. 60 Table 4.4: Gender-wise Education Profile of Respondents................................................................... 61 Table 4.5: Type of Schools Contacted During the Study...................................................................... 62 Table 4.6: Source of funds for Schools contacted during the Study ..................................................... 62 Table 4.7: Number of Villages being covered by the Schools contacted.............................................. 62 Table 4.8: Teacher Student Ratio in the Contacted Schools ................................................................. 63 Table 4.9: Teachers in the Schools with respect to enrolled Students................................................... 63 Table 4.10: Number of Teachers available in the Schools contacted.................................................... 64 Table 4.11: Number of Teachers in each type of schools contacted ..................................................... 64 Table 4.12: Type of Schools with the Available Facilities.................................................................... 67 Table 4.13: Quality and Adequacy of Available Facilities As Perceived by the Teachers ................... 68 Table 4.14: Awareness of Stakeholders regarding Educational Schemes (in percent) ........................ 69 Table 4.15: Implementation of Schemes (in percent)............................................................................ 69 Table 4.16: Number