Team kalam BCS final

1. Gaurav Bhati
IIM Kozhikode
CEO
Ankita Markan
Shri Ram College of Commerce
Head of HR
Yash Jain
Savitribai Phule Pune University
Head of IT
Saurabh Jawade
IIM Kozhikode
Head of Finance
Varun Dave
Merkle Sokrati
Head of Marketing
Shruti Swami
Amity University
General Manager
Fixing the broken education system to achieve
breakthrough holistic outcomes
Team Kalam
Ruchika Jain
Nemichand Jain College
General Manager
Prakash Sharma
Jain University
Head of HR

2. We were asked to
• Find Key issues in current primary education system.
• Develop a Monitoring System, which should be capable of -
monitoring of infrastructure, staff & teaching quality, office books
maintenance, food quality, student physical and psychological health
& government aide
• Improvement model for teaching staff quality.
• Career Counseling methodology for students according to their skills
and interest.
• Parent - School Interaction model.
• Improve number of students attending schools on regular basis.
• Suggest a system to identify talents of students and motivate them
to take part in national & international competitions.
• Integration of Vocational and skill development courses.
• Financial model to support above activities and ensure optimum
assignment of resources to cultivate maximum output.

3. Issue 1: Multiple schemes are running parallel
between centre and states, different ministries
and within ministries.
Issue 2: Failure to arrest high dropout rates
among students.
Issue 3: Quality of Education – Low level of
learning among the students because of various
reasons like teachers quality.
Issue 4: Infrastructure is very weak and even
basic amenities like drinking water and toilets
are not available in many schools.
Issue 5: Innovative Methodologies for
monitoring quality and teaching are needed
Major issues identified in the current education system
Progress made under Sarva Siksha Abhiyan. Still many schools
are left without toilets or drinking water facilities.

4. Solutions – Integration of schemes and institutions
• Multiple schemes are running parallely between
centre and states, different ministries and within
ministries.
• There is a need to integrate all the schemes and bring
them under one single roof.
• Different schemes means one size fit all policies of the
institutions and forcing these schemes on schools.
Under new structure, schools can be provided with the
budget which will be managed as per the
requirements of the schools.
• Impact: Greater flexibility and more efficiency.

5. Solutions – Evening classes to arrest high drop-out rates
• Major reason for dropout among boys is their
engagement in domestic activities and among girls is
their engagement in domestic activities.
• While most other aspects are work around by
government already, these are not taken care off.
• One such idea is of evening classes for such children
who are not able to join schools because of such
reasons.
• Schools on similar patterns are already run by the
organization named ‘Barefoot College’ which
presented good results in schools under its
supervision.

6. Solutions – Quality of education
• Teachers in most schools are spending most of their time in supervising rather than teaching. They
spend time in activities like supervising building of toilets, submitting scholarships of children in bank
accounts, etc.
• There should be different staff to take care of these aspects and teachers should be left only with
teaching activities.
• Transition schools classes for students who dropped out previously to help them catch up with their
peers.
• There is a need to redefine the purpose of education system and move away from focus on STEM
subjects only to sports, arts and other aspects as well. Work experience classes should be organized on
weekly basis where children should be motivated to take part in story telling, poems recitation,
meditation and mental exercises, etc.

7. Solutions – Easier solutions for Infrastructure issues
• As many schools don’t have access to computers,
mobile apps or whatsapp groups should be formed
to assist teachers with any repair and maintenance
requirements.
• Children learn more by practice. Hands on learning
activities after each chapter in books should be
made available to assist teachers with organizing
practical activities in classrooms.
• For e.g. activity explaining how to replace abacus
with stones and beads that can help in teaching
children counting easily without any need of
expensive objects.

8. Solutions – Innovative methodologies for monitoring quality
• Innovations don’t scale in India. There is a need to scale the
pilots of NGO’s and other such institutions.
• A repository of case studies and innovations should be built
and shared with principals who should be able to utilize that
as per their needs.
• Grading of schools and linking reward and recognition with
the same can imbibe competition and hard work among
schools.
• They may get accreditation like private schools for their
quality and credibility.
• Teachers should be sent for training, so that they can learn
by example from other best institutions and become
mentor to their peers. This will act as positive reinforcement
among the teaching community. (Delhi government under
AAP did the same).

9. Solutions – Three-tier system for monitoring management activities
• A three tier system needs to be developed to ensure monitoring of monitoring of infrastructure, staff &
teaching quality, office books maintenance, food quality, student physical and psychological health &
government aide.
• At first level is the ministers themselves who ensures all the needs of schools in their constituency are
taken care off.
• At second level are the officers of Department of school education and literacy (DOE), accreditation
agencies, and local officers.
• At third level is the school management committee formed of parents and teachers. With active
participation of parents quality of schools will surely increase.
• Among parents we should have parents of students (to ensure that children interests are taken care of)
as well as Head of Panchayats (as they are more active and empowered to take decisions).

10. Budget recommendations
Government need to revamp support to the institutions by
giving more financial support.
Reasons:
● Need to upgrade existing courses and institutions to
meet the current market need
● More qualified personnel hired
● Setting up training institute in every taluka area
● Award and recognition, subsidy for starting business
● International courses need to be implemented
● By this government, will be spending at least 10000 per
year per student.
P.S. Contributed by Saurabh Jawade
Government of India spends fairly less
compared with developed nations as a
percent of GDP

11. Other solutions -
• Make sure that there is no discrimination that takes place among the children based on gender, rural –
urban, caste or religion of the child. Also, the government should ensure to provide the needs of these
children. For e.g. toilets for girls, etc.
• Spend on IT needs like smart classes for children and biometric for teachers attendance.
• Build good assessments system to access the quality of teachers. Teachers should be treated like
executives and evaluated in a similar way as corporate executives or their senior counterparts in the
higher education system.
• Health clinics for children on weekly basis are need to resolve absenteeism among children.
• Students should be tested on various skills and counselled for career opportunities accordingly.
• Government should fund the training of talented students and schools should take the responsibility for
identifying opportunity for these children to motivate them to participate in national and international
competitions.

12. Impact
We aim to achieve triple bottom line of Access, Equity and
Quality.
• Access – It should be accessible to even the
poorest of the poor with all kinds of need. Say,
evening classes for children who can’t attend day
schools.
• Equity – It should not discriminate between gender,
rural – urban, caste or religion of the child.
• Quality – The education system should focus not
only on enrolment but also the quality of
education.
Equity
QualityAccess

13. References
• https://www.indiabudget.gov.in/ub2019-20/bag/bag7.pdf
• https://mhrd.gov.in/overview-se
• https://www.ted.com/talks/seema_bansal_how_to_fix_a_broken_education_system_without_any_mo
re_money?language=en
• https://www.careerride.com/view/education-in-india-problems-and-their-solutions-19718.aspx
• https://countercurrents.org/2018/03/27/fixing-indias-broken-education-system/
• https://yourstory.com/2017/09/india-public-education-system
• http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=179528
• http://samagra.mhrd.gov.in/
• https://mhrd.gov.in/sites/upload_files/mhrd/files/statistics-new/ESAG-2018.pdf
• https://www.oxford-royale.co.uk/articles/international-solutions-student-problems.html
• http://www.theweekendleader.com/Culture/2759/schools-of-excellence.html
• https://aamaadmiparty.org/aap-brings-systematic-changes-to-government-education/

14. Thank You
“A government which has to deal with an educated population is by far
stronger than one which has to control ignorant and disorderly
masses. Hence education is a twice-blessed thing – it benefits those who
give it and those who receive it”