Delhi Government Performance: 2015-2019 January 2020 Dialogue & Development Commission of Delhi 1 Education Healthcare Water Electricity Transport Environment Governance Social Security Women’s Safety Budget and Revenues Dialogue & Development Commission of Delhi 2 EDUCATION|SUMMARY An Incredible turn-around story 2015 2019 • Decades of neglect had left Delhi • Modernizing Infrastructure: Fixing acute government school infrastructure in deep shortage of classrooms, building schools of disrepair – with students and teachers having excellence with world class facilities to spend their day in inhumane conditions • Teacher Training: Capacity building of teaching staff and principals • Severe shortage of rooms and teachers • Accountability & Transparency: Making school • Morale & motivation of teachers and administration accountable and admissions principals at an all time low transparent • Improving Learning outcomes through • Poor learning and literacy levels amongst interventions such as Chunauti, Mission students, with 3 out of 4 students in Class 6 Buniyaad, the acclaimed Happiness Curriculum, unable to even read their textbooks and Entrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum. Dialogue & Development Commission of Delhi 3 EDUCATION|KEY FACTORS The Key Factors WORLD-CLASS INFRASTRUCTURE TEACHERS & PARENTS CLASSROOM PRACTICES Increasing the budget investment Investing heavily in teacher Focused Remediation programs to in Education to 26% (the highest training at global centres of improve numeracy & literacy and a among all Indian States) and eminence (Finland, Cambridge, 40% improvement in Spoken English almost doubling the classrooms Singapore). proficiency at the lowest level. (24k to 45k) to ensure that students in Delhi Government Strengthening the School Innovative Curricula (Happiness and Management Committees to Entrepreneurship Mindset) that schools have access to world st class infrastructure. improve parental involvement. impart 21 century skills to our students. Dialogue & Development Commission of Delhi 4 A toilet A corridor Government school facilities A classroom Before the AAP Government… Dialogue & Development Commission of Delhi 5 BUDGET Dialogue & Development Commission of Delhi 6 EDUCATION | BUDGET Delhi's investment on Education as ratio to Aggregate Expenditure has risen to be the highest among all states of India Total expenditure on education* by time period, NCT Expenditure on education* as a ratio of Delhi, ₹ thousand crore average expenditure, % Previous Delhi govts. Current AAP govt. Delhi NCT All states 26% 19% CAGR 15.6 12% 16% CAGR 11.6 9.9 9.1 7.8 6.2 6.6 5.5 14% 15% 4.8 4.1 4.2 3.2 2008-092009-102010-112011-122012-132013-142014-152015-162016-172017-182018-192019-20 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 NOTE: Data till FY 2017-18 are Actuals, 2018-19 is a Revised Estimate, and 2019-20 is a Budget Estimate *Includes spend on Sports, Art and Culture under revenue expenditure and capital outlay SOURCE: "STATE FINANCES: A STUDY OF BUDGETS OF 2017-18 AND 2018-19," Dialogue & Development Commission of Delhi 7 Reserve Bank of India. Economic Survey of Delhi, 2017-18, Dept.of Planning INFRASTRUCTURE Dialogue & Development Commission of Delhi 8 DOE | INFRASTRUCTURE New Schools and Classrooms Built In progress Total New schools built and in New additional classrooms since 2015, progress since 2015, # of schools #of classrooms/equivalent rooms SCR: Student Classroom Ratio 33:1 SCR 46:1 761 SCR 30 62:1 12,762 45,118 25 SCR 8,095 24,157 706 2015 Built till In Progress Total 2015 Built till In Progress Total date date SOURCE: DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi Delhi 9 EDUCATION | INFRASTRUCTURE Smart classes Improvements to school facilities Well-stocked libraries Dialogue & Development Commission of Delhi 10 EDUCATION| ENROLLMENT 1.4 Lakh children from private schools in Delhi have joined government schools Enrolment in Schools, MCD versus Delhi Government, # 2012 15.15 2019 15.09 Lakhs Lakhs 109 schools have 9.85 been shut down Lakhs by MCD in the 7.32 last 9 years, Lakhs 1764 to 1655 in 2019-20 MCD Schools Delhi Govt. Schools SOURCE: DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Dialogue & Development Commission of Delhi 11 Delhi Govt. has majorly focused to improve sports infrastructure in Delhi since the last 5 years Constructed Under construction 7 16 4 5 1 2 Astro turf Synthetic Swimming tracks Pool The # of students participating in National Games has increased from 2,468 in 2015 to 4,194 in 2019, with 1076 medals won Dialogue & Development Commission of Delhi 12 EDUCATION | INFRASTRUCTURE Sports Facilities New schools with world class facilities Govt. Modernized Laboratories Revamped Auditoriums school facilities SOURCE: DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Dialogue & Development Commission of Delhi 13 TEACHER TRAINING Dialogue & Development Commission of Delhi 14 Delhi Govt. reduced teacher vacancies by 70% since 2015 70% Total Required 55,893 64,024 reduction 5,666 18,739 Vacant 58,358 Available 37,154 2015 2019 Dialogue & Development Commission of Delhi 15 EDUCATION | TEACHER TRAINING Delhi Govt. significantly increased the budget for teacher trainings, resulting in 1407 teachers trained abroad and at IIMs 38% Teacher training abroad and at IIMs, CAGR # of teachers/principals/teacher/educators # of 125 -0.5% teachers 104 Trained at premier institutes in India CAGR 60% attending 78 (e.g. IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Lucknow) 60 CAGR trainings, Trained abroad (University of thousands of 34 34 Cambridge, Finland, Singapore) individuals 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19* 1407 757 547 45% CAGR 345 398 57 32.5 13% 25.0 27.6 288 Total budget CAGR for teacher 650 training, 6.3 7.4 8.8 ₹ crore 0 149 2018-19 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 * 2018-19 figures are target only. SOURCE: Department of Education Dialogue & Development Commission of Delhi 16 EDUCATION|TEACHER TRAINING Mentor Teachers’ training at the National Institute of Education, Singapore HoS Leadership Programme SOURCE: DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Dialogue & Development Commission of Delhi 17 ACCOUNTABILITY & TRANSPARENCY Dialogue & Development Commission of Delhi 18 EDUCATION | ACCOUNTABILITY Structural Reform: Delhi government empowered School Management Committees (SMCs) through Parental Involvement Old system Changes made under the AAP government New system • Centralized • SMCs reorganized through elections at the end of 2 year • SMCs are now decentralized monitoring of term of Parent Members empowering tools putting parents in schools at district charge of accountability and closing the level was inefficient • 2015-18: SMCs led from the front in organizing Mega feedback loop Parent Teacher Meetings, Reading Melas, streamlining • Even a well meaning admission process and ensuring attendance of irregular • Empowered teams at school level: and efficient students District Level Committees monitoring officer in- charge of 100 schools • Regular training of SMC members to strengthen capacity would circle back to the same school in • SMC App has been introduced to help schools, parents >90 days and other community members directly connect with SMC SMC SMC decision makers “Section 21 of the RTE Act 2009 envisaGes the formation of School ManaGement Committee in Government Schools and are expected to perform three core functions apart from any other functions that may be assiGned to it.” Dialogue & Development Commission of Delhi 19 EDUCATION | ACCOUNTABILITY An SMC Meeting in action People lining up to vote for SMC elections! Dialogue & Development Commission of Delhi 20 EDUCATION | ACCOUNTABILITY Overwhelming participation at the Mega PTMs 70% 997 Parental attendance at Schools conducted the Mega PTMs PTMs SOURCE: DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, Outcome Budget 2019-20 Dialogue & Development Commission of Delhi 21 EDUCATION | ACCOUNTABILITY Estate Management made accountable in Schools Intervention Outcome • Appointment of Estate • 174,400* Repair related issues Manager by HoS for raised by Estate Manager on maintenance work mobile app till date • Estate Manager ‘App’ set up • 98% issues raised are resolved to aid inspection, logging and within 90 days resolving complaints SOURCE: Outcome Budget 2019-20, 29,012 in 2019-20 Dialogue & Development Commission of Delhi 22 EDUCATION | ACCOUNTABILITY Estate Manager App Dialogue & Development Commission of Delhi 23 EDUCATION | ACCOUNTABILITY Qualitative changes to the RTE admission process involve streamlined processes and increased accountability Criteria Pre-2015 (Congress Govt.) Post-2015 (AAP Govt.) Admission Process • Decentralized offline at school level • Centralized online Corruption • Recommendations from politicians, bureaucrats and • Eliminated human interference completely. All businesses, and bribes common admissions through computerized lottery. Parents’ • Had to go to different schools to submit admission forms • Single admission form where parents can choose as Experience • Multiple days of wage loss for visit multiple schools, many schools as he/she wants stand in queues and submitting forms • No wage loss as filling form is now 20 minutes process • Required documents/certificates at time of application. • Required documents only at the time of admission Accountability & • Government had little idea about number of admissions, • Strong and robust MIS ensures all schools are geo- Use of Technology the identity and details of the children. tagged, unique IDs assigned to all children admitted under this