1. Manthan Topic: Mission Shiksha
Team Details:
Aditya Suman
Arpit Jain
Sachin Agrawal
Shikhar Sharma
Sindhukush
Stepping Stones:
Enhancing the quality of primary
education
College: IIT Kanpur

2. Possible causes:
- Dropouts from primary school
- 58% of children do not complete primary education
- Hypothesis: There is a lack of interest due to cramming and lack of money. Also
people are unaware of the advantages of education
- Poor infrastructural facilities & lack of qualified teachers
- 95.2% of schools do not meet the RTE infrastructure indicators
- Youth considers teaching in school as the last option for employment
- Hypothesis: Low fund. Only 3.1% of GDP of India is spent on education as
compared to 5.5% of US. Low salary of teachers
- Mismanagement from govt. side
- Plans like Mid-day meals are not implemented properly, recent accident of
children dying after having pesticide contaminated meals in Chhapra, Bihar
proves this
- Hypothesis: Corruption in India at every level
Data on this slide is taken from reference 1
Increase in enrolment but decline in ability to do basic math and reading textbooks
96.5% of all children aged 6-14 years being enrolled in school, only 53.4% of children in Class V could read Class II level textbooks
We concentrate on two basic factors
hindering the primary education:
- Lack of funds, more importantly, proper
use of them
- Lack of awareness among people to
provide education to all their children

3. Raising funds
From where can we have money required in primary education?
Step 1: Collecting
funds
•Companies with revenue > Rs. 10 crore will pay 0.5% of their profit
•Companies with revenue < Rs. 10 crore will pay 0.1% of their profit
•NRIs would be encouraged to donate substantial amount for this cause
Step 2:
Administrating
funds
•A non-profit organization will be set up consisting of IAS officers at the top
and having representatives (retired school principles) in every district
•It will be responsible for maintaining regularity among teachers and
students, which would improve the quality of education
•It will not be accountable to govt. (to avoid corruption), accountable only
to supreme court
Step 3:
Channeling funds
•The schools will be given funds according to the number of students
studying there
•It will be monitored by school representatives
•They would also ensure that the funds are properly used

4. Organization hierarchy and selection
Who will be there in it?
National Level
•A board of directors of 8 people consisting
of top academicians/retired judges
•Selected by collegium system
•They will be responsible for addressing
companies for issues
State Level
•A team of 4 leaders in each state,
accountable to board of directors
•They will plan the course of future events
and also assist the directors in their work
•Responsible for contacting NRIs and
requesting for funds
District Level
•Newly recruited IAS officers, who are active
enough to coordinate with schools
•They will have to monitor whether the fund
is properly used
•They would have to maintain transparency
by publishing monthly fund distribution
details
School Level
•The principle of the school will be local
head, who will get the fund for the school
•Accountable to district level IAS officers for
expenditure of the money

5. Challenges to this proposal
Why it may not work?
The proposal may
discourage foreign
companies to invest in
India because of the
significant amount they
have to contribute
Corruption in the
companies may increase
as they will show less
revenue (promotion to
black money)
Effect on
companies
Hierarchal reduction is
required in the education
system of India, which
will be a major challenge
in the proposed solution
Honesty in the new
system is required and
maintaining the same will
be a challenge
Implementation
Merit of the proposed solution
Why would it work?
Working principles
Improving the base
- The district level officers will conduct social awareness campaigns in the
district. He/she will also conduct random visits to schools for inspection
- School representatives will submit a report to the officers detailing about
every enrolled student and the expenditure on him/her
- The officers will publish district level reports accessible by general public
- The proposed system does not involve
government or its officials at large,
eventually reducing the risk of corruption
- The schools will now be getting adequate
funds which is not possible by existing
government policies
- The salary of the teachers can also be hiked
now, which would attract qualified
individuals into teaching
- The companies can also boost their
corporate social responsibilities by
participating in this
- Empowers young educated people to
contribute significantly towards India’s
growth
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6. Social Awareness Campaign by high school students
How to change the prevailing orthodox mentality?
•Projects to be included in high school curriculum
which would involve bringing awareness among poor
people about importance of education
•Students will spend at least one month at the
assigned place preferably in summer vacation
Campaign Outline
•The project would consist of talking personally to the
poor parents and children
•They may demonstrate the importance by citing
biographies of successful people of the place
Contents
•Parents would be surveyed by the concerned class
teacher
•Monetary compensation/awards will be given to
students who could influence the parents and
children efficiently
Evaluation
Explanation
- This campaign can also be
extended to first year college
students, since most of them are
free in the summer
- Students going on these projects
would be provided with housing (in
govt hostels, ashrams etc), fooding
and sufficient stipend
- Apart from these, basic farming
education may be introduced in
the primary and secondary
curriculum, which would encourage
rural parents to send their children
to schools as they would be
learning something relevant to
their (parents’) work

7. AnnualBudgetBreakup
District Level
Rs. 2 Crore (Assuming 50
participating schools per
district)
School Level
Rs. 4,00,000 (100 students from
IX, X class)
Student Level
Rs. 4000 (1000 – Housing, 1800
– Food, 500 – Travel, Stipend -
700)
The plan would require a funding of roughly Rs. 2 Crore per district. This amount will be
obtained partly from the government’s education budget as well as from the 0.1% / 0.5%
contribution from the private sector as mentioned earlier.
Estimated financial requirements for proposed solution
Money matters

8. Challenges to this proposal
Why it may not work?
•Teachers may themselves discourage the
students to go on campaigns and produce fake
reports for submission
•Students may not take the work seriously and
end up with fake reports
Corruption
•People may not send their children on the
campaigns because of parental concernsTravel Issue
•Students may not be able to influence people
or poor people may not listen to them over
their preferences
•Improper information conveyed by students
may lead to adverse impact on the people’s
mentality
Lack of Maturity
Merit of the proposed solution
Why would it work?
- Poor children would be encouraged by
witnessing the effect of education on
boys and girls of their own age groups
- The participating school students would
become socially active by witnessing the
prevailing pathetic situation in India
- It would also serve as an eye-opener to
financially strong parents (who would
send their children for these projects) to
do something for the society
- This campaign has to be implemented
just once. If executed properly, it would
bring dramatic change in all spheres

9. Impact of the solutions
A cherished dream
•If implemented, money will finally
reach proper hands
•Almost every problem of India boils
down to low literacy rate (lack of
quality education). In future, when
everyone will have access to quality
education, we can expect India to
be among the developed nations
Improvement in
Literacy Rate
•Social awareness will be a
boon to Indian society as
many problems are
associated with it
•Prevalent problems like
dowry, female foeticide,
child labor will
undoubtedly get reduced
Social awareness

10. References
We are thankful
1. http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-01-
15/india/28357333_1_private-schools-enrolment-education-act
2. Annual Status of Education Report 2012:
http://img.asercentre.org/docs/Publications/ASER%20Reports/ASER_2012/fullase
r2012report.pdf
3. http://forbesindia.com/article/briefing/primary-education-in-india-needs-a-
fix/35287/1
4. http://pdel.ucsd.edu/_files/paper_2013_karthik.pdf
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_India#Primary_education_system
_in_India
6. Sonia Bhalotra, Bernarda Zamora: Primary Education in India: Prospects of
Meeting the MDG Target, Research Paper No. 2006/80, UNU-WIDER
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