fvjTcTf 3TT2Tf^cf> corefavR "I'FIICT PRIMARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME Part - 3 State Specific Information on Mission Objectives 14th Joint Review Mission (November-December, 2001) The volume contains State Specific Information on Mission Objectives. Contents S.No. State Page No. 1 Andhra Pradesh 1-29 2 Assam 30-77 3 Bihar 78-143 4 Gujarat 144-158 5 Haryana 159-173 6 Himachal Pradesh 174-194 7 Karnataka 195-207 8 Kerala 208-212 9 Maharashtra 213-224 10 Orissa 225-259 11 Rajasthan 260-268 12 Tamil Nadu 269-322 13 Uttar Pradesh 323-333 14 Uttaranchal 334-339 ANDHRA PRADESH Oiective 1: Progress towards achievement of programme objectives and outcome iriicators (district-wise information wherever available) 0.1 Out o f School Children'. What is the absolute number and approximate percentage of out of school children in the age-group population? What are the strategies adopted to include out of school children? The Family Survey undertaken in the DPEP districts revealed that there are about 108.06 lakhs of children in the age group of 5+ to 14 in 19 DPEP districts. Out of which 15.96 lakhs are out of school children. Further the attendance monitoring revealed that about 8.79 lakhs children in the age group of 5 - 14 are irregular. The percentage o f out of schoolchildren is about 17.20 and irregular children are 9.49. The district-wise distribution of Out of school children is at Annexure 1 and 2. Strategies for mainstreaming of out of school children • Validating the lists of out of school children habitation-wise and findout the reasons for their non-schooling. • Conduct of awareness campaigns and community mobilisation by involving youth activists and other self help groups for sensitization of community, parents, employers on child labour vis-a-vis child rights and motivating for the education of child labour • Formation of core groups at habitation, cluster and mandal level for taking various activities for community mobilisation and relieving child labour from the employers. • Conduct of Kalajathas, Youth rallies, frequent meetings at habitation-level, cluster-level and mandal-level for the involvement of community and field staff for the schooling of out of school children. • Conduct of Residential bridge courses for child labour, other difficult groups and girls for mainstreaming. • Conduct of Non-Residential Bridge Courses at habitation level for dropouts and mainstreaming. • Conduct of back to school programme during summer for the mainstreaming of dropouts. • Opening of Alternative Schools in the schoolless habitations for improving the Access. • Mainstreaming of child labour through National Child Labour Project Schools. 0 1 2 Enrollment in Schools: What is the enrolment in Class 1 and total (indicate source) disaggregated for gender, social groups and types of schools (alternative, formal, private, government etc.,); The Class I enrollment in 19 DPEP districts during 2000 - 01 is 16.78 lakhs and 12.84 lakhs during 2001 - 02. Further the Class II enrollment during 2000 - 01 is 12.65 and 13.26 during 2001 - 02. The figures shows that there is a marked decreaise in the enrollment figures of class I for the current year when compared to last year anc enhancement in case of Class II for the current year. This is because of plannied actior taken for discouraging the retention and promoting all the class I into Class II.. Furthei because of decrease in the birth rate the enrollment in class I is low when cormpared tc last year. The enrollment in class I may also be due to opening of ECEs by DPEP anc Anganwadies by ICDS. Thereby the children below 5 years are being getting admitted into ECE till they attain the age of 5+. The district-wise dietails ol enrollment from class I to C lass VII both for the current year and previous year is at Annexure 3. 01.3 What is the Enrollment in A.S / Bridge Courses / Camps and percentage oj transition to formal schools The Enrollment in Alternative Schools in DPEP districts is 61,937 out o f which 32,121 are boys 29,816 are girls. Further there are about 77 Residentiail Bridge courses function under DPEP and as well as other schemes with an enrollment 7,000 children who are child labour. The details district-wise distribution of Enrollment in Alternative Schools is at Annexure 4 and Bridge Course Camps is at A nnexure5. 01.4 Information on students' attendance and retention class-wise and the overall completion rate (Class I to IV / V); information on progress in reachung and retaining the most disadvantaged groups of children - especially tribals, hiardest to reach groups, children with disabilities, migrating children and urban poor tetc Attendance monitoring was started in November 2000. The data on students attendance monitoring from class I to V reveals that the class I children o>n roll is 16.45 lakhs and actual attendance at the time of attendance monitoring is aboiut 13.2! lakhs leaving about 3.24 lakhs children who are irregular. The total nuimber of children from Class I to VII who are on roll is 67.51 lakhs against whom 56..58 lakhs arc present during the time of attendance monitoring by MRPs. This reveals tlhat there arc about 10.93 lakhs of irregular children in DPEP districts during 2000 01. The district wise of children on roll and present against class-wise is at A n n exu re (6. The data pertaining to number of dropouts class-wise during 2001 - 02 shows thai there are 80577 dropouts in Class I and 63491 in Class II. Thus there arc 1 .‘96 lakhs dropouts from class I to VI during 2001 - 02. The district-wise distribution of dropouts against cach class is at Annexure 7. Further the data pertaining to detentions against each class from Class I to VII reveals that there arc 1.50 lakhs children detained in class I during 2000 - 01. Furthicr there are about 3.06 lakhs children detained from Class I to VI during 2000 - 0)1. The district-wise distribution of detained children against class-wise is A n n exu re 8>. 2 0.5 Information on improvement on students' learning levels, identification of hard spots, improvement in classroom environment, etc. in formal and alternative schools In the process o f assessing pupil performances in primary classes, achievement tests in Telugu and Maths subjects were developed at SPO, DPEP, Hyderabad in consultation with selected DIET Faculty members, classroom teachers and MRPs. The tests were designed in such a way that they are running tests for classes I to V which can reflect the higher level competencies of children in lower primary classes (Say classes I to 3) and lower level competencies of children in high primary classes (say classes 4 and 5) in each subject. Initially, the tests were proposed for administration in schools of identified Mandals in each District. Already, the tests were administered in 6 districts in July 2001 and data furnished to SPO after consolidation for getting the data computerized for analysis on mandal-wise and district-wise performances in each subject. In the remaining districts, the process of administration o f tests is going on. Further, it was also decided to conduct the tests in schools of all the uncovered mandals of each district by reducing the number of test items in each subject. Accordingly, the tests were revised and sent to districts for administration in schools on 10 - 11 Sept 2001. The process of administration of tests is in various stages in the districts. This process is aimed at assessing the level of pupil performance in Language and Mathematics in the context of DPEP interventions on Teacher-training suited to child- centred and activity-based pedagogy and development of textbooks in classes I to V on the same lines and for taking necessary measures to improve the pupil performance levels and thereby the quality of Primary Education. Hard spots in different school subjects have been identified self instructional material for hard spots is under process of development. Oj.6 Information on recent improvements made and plans for further development of school as well as household based information systems and use of information; Action taken to support districts / sub-districts which have faced difficulties in setting up a reliable information systems? It was planned and implemented for the development of accurate database on the total number of children in the age group of 0 - 15 years alongwith in-school and out of school by way of conduct of 'Family Survey' in all the habitations of DPEP districts. The survey data was computerized and the names of the children are crosschecked with other information available and validated in the field level. Now it is planned to utilize this data for planning various activities for UEE. The MIS staff members are regularly visiting the districts for streamlining the data and to enable to share the data between state and districts. Further it is also planned to validate the available database resulted from various sources i.e., Family Survey, Attendance Monitoring and DISE data. 3 Objective 2: Improvement in the quality of primary schooling: (District-wise) 02.1 Type of indicators developed for use, if any, at state and district levels to monito quality; It was planned and implemented the monitoring of quality in primary schooLs throug involving DIET staff. All the DIET staff were oriented at State level and develops appropriate systems and proformae for academic monitoring of schools and th programme was taken up. The proformae showing indicators for quality monitorin; of given hereunder: Academic Monitoring for School Improvement - School-wise proformae Each DIET Lecturer is requested to go through all the aspects given in the proformai in the school which is assigned to him and categorize the school item-wise for all tin items at the time of first visit and monitor the school by way of providing the guidanci and work with the school staff for the improvement i.e., to bring ‘D ’ to ‘C ’ 'C to ‘B 'B' to ‘A’ category.