State of Municipal Education in Mumbai
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WHITE PAPER State of Municipal Education In Mumbai December 2016 1 State of Municipal Education in Mumbai Table of Contents Sr. No. Title Page No. I I. Foreword 4 II II. Acknowledgement 5 III Section I. Summary of RTI Data 6 IV A. Outcome Indicators 6 V B. Annual Municipal Budget for Education 14 VI C. Monitoring and Evaluation 17 VII a) Teacher Inspection Reports 20 VIII b) Enquiries conducted against Teaching staff (Teachers/HMs) and suspensions 21 IX c) Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation 21 X D. Compliance with norms laid down under Right to Education Act 24 XI Section II. Deliberation by Municipal Councillors and MLAs 29 XII Section III. Data from Household Survey 35 XIII III. Ward-wise Data 38 XIV Annexure 1 – Survey Methodology 44 XV Annexure 2 – Socio Economic Classification (SEC) Note 45 XVI Annexure 3 – Inspection Report Form 46 XVII Annexure 4 – Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation Form 48 XVII Annexure 5- RTI response for District Profile 49 XVIII Annexure 6 - Scholarship Circular for 2015-16 50 Chart 1 Chart 1: Reasons for not being happy with Municipal School (%) 37 Tables Table 1: Total No. of Students (Enrolments) in Mumbai’s Municipal Schools 2011 1 6 - 2016 2 Table 2: Total Dropouts in Mumbai’s Municipal Schools 2011- 2016 7 3 Table 3: Transition Rate of Students from Class 7 to Class 8 in 2015-16 8 4 Table 4: Change in Total Enrolments 2008 to 2016 8 5 Table 5: Retention Rate in Municipal Schools- Class 1 to Class 7 9 6 Table 6: Change in Class I Enrolments 2008 to 2016 9 7 Table 7: Medium-wise Class I Enrolments 2009 to 2016 10 8 Table 8: Total Enrolments in Semi-English schools 10 9 Table 9: Total Dropouts in Semi-English schools 11 10 Table 10: Standards-wise Enrolment and Dropout in Semi-English schools 12 Table 11: Standards-wise Enrolments and Dropouts in Mumbai Public Schools 11 12 (MPS) 2 State of Municipal Education in Mumbai 12 Table 12: Comparison between MCGM and Private Schools: SSC Results 13 Table 13: Comparison between Private and MCGM Schools: Scholarships for 4th 13 13 and 7th Standard 14 Table 14: Annual Municipal Budget and Per-capita allocation for Students 14 15 Table 15: Per-child Allocation and Expenditure (In Rs. Crore) 15 Table 16: Budgeted vs. Actual Expenditure Summary 2014-16 for Primary 16 16 Education(In Rs. Crore) 17 Table 17: Strength of the School Inspection Unit 2012-16 18 18 Table 18: Inspection norms for School Inspectors 18 19 Table 19: Medium-wise Inspectors 2014-16 19 20 Table 20: D, M/East and P/South ward Teacher Inspection Data 20 21 Table 21: CCE data for Wards D, M/E and P/S for 2015-16 22 Table 22: Percentage of Students graded ‘E2’ i.e. continuously absent in wards 22 22 D, M/E and P/Sin 2015-16 23 Table 23: Compliance with Infrastructure and other norms under RTE (2014-15) 24 24 Table 24: Infrastructure of MCGM schools 25 Table 25: Student Classroom Ratio (SCR)/Pupil Teacher Ratio (PTR) and Teacher 25 26 Classroom Ratio in Mumbai 26 Table 26: Medium Wise Pupil (Student) Teacher Ratio in 2015-16 27 27 Table 27: Schools with School Management Committees in 2014-15 28 Table 28: Number of questions asked and Number of meetings by Councillors 28 29 on Education in all Committees 29 Table 29: Category wise number of Questions asked by Councillors on Education 29 Table 30: Questions asked by Education Committee Members in 2012-13 to 30 30 2015-16 Table 31: Ward-wise questions asked by councillors on Education in the year 31 31 April’15 to March’16 Table 32: Issues raised/Questions asked by Councillors in the year April’15 to 32 32 March’16 33 Table 33: Questions asked by MLAs on Education 33 34 Table 34: Issue-wise questions asked by MLAs on Education 34 35 Table 35: Current Medium of Education (%) 35 Table 36: Respondents from Table 35 whose current medium of education is 36 36 other than English and would want to change to English medium (%) 37 Table 37: Respondents taking private tuitions/coaching classes (%) 36 38 Table 38: Details on source of Tuitions (%) 36 39 Table 39: Percentage happy with the School 37 40 Table 40: Ward-wise Total Number of Students in Municipal Schools in Mumbai 38 41 Table 41: Ward-wise drop in Enrolments between 2011-12 and 2015-16 39 42 Table 42: Ward-wise Total Number of Dropout in Municipal Schools in Mumbai 40 43 Table 43: Ward-wise Total Number of Teachers in Municipal Schools in Mumbai 41 44 Table 44:Ward-wise Total Number of Pass outs in Municipal Schools in Mumbai 42 Table 45: Population-wise Number of Student in Government, Pvt. Aided, Pvt. 46 43 Unaided and Unrecognised Schools in 2015-16 3 State of Municipal Education in Mumbai I. Foreword The writing is on the wall, if the Municipal Corporation is going to continue the same standard of imparting education to the children, we will soon see that the people will stop sending their children to Municipal schools. Praja has been consistently monitoring the state and the running of our Municipal schools, since the last few years. We use RTI (Right to Information) to collect data on various parameters, amongst them is the enrolment of children to the 1st standard, in 2008-09 we saw an enrolment of 63,392 children which has fallen to now 34,549 in 2015-16. Through a time series analysis in our last year report we had predicted that in 2015-16 the number of students in class 1 will be 38,329. However the RTI data reveals that only 34,549 enrolled in class 1 in 2015-16, it is ‘worse’ than what we had predicted. If this slide continues than in 2019-20 we may have only 5,558 students enrolling in class 1. This issue and others matters such as the quality of education and performance of the children in the scholarship exams of the state government does not seem to be an issue when our Municipal Councillors, Municipal Commissioner and Education Department make huge budget allocations. They have nearly tripled the municipal budget in the last eight years (since 2008-09 to 2016-17) from 911 crores to 2,567 crores. Mumbai Corporation plans to spend this year 49,835 rupees on every student. More and more parents are opting out of the municipal education system. Shouldn’t this be answered by our political leaders and the municipal commissioner? However, when we bring our report based on analysis of government data every year, the standard response that we get is DENIAL. Denial of the fact that class 1 enrolments have dropped by 45% in the last seven years (since 2008-09 to 2015-16). Denial of the fact that for every one student getting scholarship in standard 7th in municipal schools there are 134 students in private schools. Good Governance is based on the principles of Accountability, Transparency and Efficiency. It needs to be measured by its Outputs and Outcomes corresponding to the Inputs. If we keep this ostrich like attitude then in the next ten years we will see only a municipal education budget for teachers and establishment, but no students! Are we the people of Mumbai ready for this? NITAI MEHTA Managing Trustee, Praja Foundation 4 State of Municipal Education in Mumbai II. Acknowledgement Praja has obtained the data used in compiling this report card through Right to Information Act, 2005. Hence it is very important to acknowledge the RTI Act and everyone involved, especially from the officials who have provided us this information diligently. We are also most grateful to – our Elected Representatives, the Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and journalists who utilise and publicise our data and, by doing so, ensure that awareness regarding various issues we discuss is distributed to a wide ranging population. We would also like to extend our gratitude to all government officials for their cooperation and support. This report has been made possible by the support provided to us by our friends, supporters, volunteers and interns. We would particularly like to appreciate the help provided by Prasad Baliga, who volunteered with us and helped us to analyse some of the key data points in this report. It’s important here to acknowledge Hansa Research for conducting the opinion poll. We would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere gratitude to all. Praja Foundation also appreciates the support given by our supporters and donors, namely European Union, Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Dasra, TATA Trusts, Narotam Sekhsaria Foundation and Madhu Mehta Foundation. We would like to thank our group of Advisors & Trustees and lastly but not the least, we would like to acknowledge the contributions of all members of Praja’s team, who worked to make this report a reality.. Madhu Mehta Foundation Tata Trusts have supported Praja Foundation in this project. The Trusts believe in a society of well-informed citizens and it is to this effect that Tata Trusts supports Praja’s efforts to communicate with and enable citizens to interact with their administration through innovative and effective methods. 5 State of Municipal Education in Mumbai Section I. Summary of RTI Data A. Outcome Indicators Table 1: Total No. of Students (Enrolments) in Mumbai’s Municipal Schools 2011 - 2016 Year 2011-2012 2012-2013 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 Total Students 439,153 434,523 404,251 397,085 383,485 % Change in Enrolments Year on Year 0.3% -1.1% -7% -2% -3% Medium-wise1 Change in Enrolments Year on Year (%) No.