The document discusses problems with primary education in India and proposes solutions. It identifies issues like lack of infrastructure, improper implementation of mid-day meals, outdated syllabus, and lack of interest among students, teachers, and parents. It proposes a public-private partnership model where large industries invest in building and maintaining school infrastructure in exchange for government incentives. Regular audits and monitoring are suggested to ensure accountability and prevent corruption. Challenges of the approach like social and political issues are also discussed along with mitigation factors.

1. AKKSHAR
.....an Awakning
STEPPING STONES
Enhancing The Quality of Primary Education
TEAMS DETAILS :
“THE INQUISITIVES”
- ANCHAL KESARI (TEAM COORDINATOR)
- ARUSHI BINDAL
- NIRMALYA SHUKLA
- YASHOWARDHAN DIXIT
- HETAL GADHER

2. As per 2012 ASER report, 96% of rural children
attend primary school.
PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED
1) Lack of proper infrastructure
• Building.
• Basic furniture.
• Hygienic environment.
• Washroom facility.
• Playground.
2) Improper Implementation of mid-
day meal
• Corruption at grass root level.
• Lack of hygienic & qualitative
food offered.
• Loop holes in funds allocation.
3) Lack of interest
• In students
• In teachers
• In parents
4) Sylllabus
• Lack of options to choose from .
• Retro and dull Syllabus.
• Impracticality
• Disinterest while formation.
5) Conveyance
• Location of Schools
• Lack of transportation

3. Causes1)
• unfriendly infrastructure for differently able students.
• least encouragement of private sector for investment in educational activities
• corruption among the management of school for funds and resources.
• small premises provided for school functioning with least facilities.
2)
• allotment of resources through long chain process.
• sanctioning process of funds for resources bought by lower working group by
upper ministries.
3)
• archaic syllabus design for transformed generation
• unattractive salary and perquisites to teachers
• lack of better insight of brighter future by parents
4)
• Lack of proper monitoring.
• untrained management and teachers to handle new generation positively.

4. Proposed solution
To deal with improper or non-workable infrastructure we propose “PPP”, Public Private
Partnership. It may sound familiar but the conduct we propose is different.
This involves a partnership of large-scale industries such as Reliance or Vodafone India
and Govt. of India. In which govt. will devise a policy which would ensure lucrative
deals(offers) or Discounts in buyouts or favors in auctions to such Industries if they invest
in education sector, basically Primary.
For ex. If Reliance Industries(be it any large scale Industry)buys 2G/3G/4G spectrum in a
particular area and has to pay around Rs.15000 Cr. For it but it could pay only Rs.10000
Cr. A whopping Discount of Rs.5000 Cr. But to avail such a discount or be eligible for such
policy, Reliance has to build premises for Schools of primary education in that area and
maintain it as well. Say, 100 Schools would suffice for such a discount. (Assumption) A
monthly report of conduct in schools they build would be uploaded by them on a website
and submitted to HRD without fail.
This way corruption at lower level of administration would go down to a significant level,
and tiring process of allocation of funds will not be required (which encompasses
misappropriation of funds).
This process will ensure good Infrastructure, which is in dire need.

5. LACK OF TNTEREST CAN BE TRACKLED BY:-
1)IN STUDENTS
This can be removed by adding winsome courses such as dancing,singing,outdoor
sports,paintings and providing suitable teachers for the same.Exams for such courses can further
enhance the talents of the students.
2)IN PARENTS
Orientation or seminars by renouned person should be held for the parents by the school at
the starting of the academic year to update the parents about the dynamic education system of
the country, why education is important for their children and how it can provide stability to
their future.
3)IN TEACHERS
Teachers lack interest in providing their 100% to the students to the lack of better salary and
perquisites .
POTENT SYLLABUS
English and value skills should be made compulsory from 1st standard in state
government schools. They should be test on the basis of reasoning and practical
knowledge should be encouraged instead of rot learning. Home works should be
replaced by assignments to enhance their practicality. General knowledge should
be added in the curriculum of state government schools which will help them to
keep a track of basic knowledge or which will update them about their
surroundings.

6. PROPER IMPLEMENTATION OF MIDDAY MEAL SCHEME FOR
PROPER FUNCTIONING AND FULLEST REASULT ...
FUNCTIONING Govt. Will provide all the
school with the packaged
food raw material from
state FDI warehouse and
quality will be handled by
assigned authority.
Schools will be asked to
give catering and
manufacturing tender of
food stuff to an outside
particular field specialised
firm .
CONTROL
State government will be
assigned with maintenance
project and funding will be
done by central and state
partially
Partial funding will be done
by state government.
Quality check will be done
by private firm and report
will be submitted monthly
to state government .
CHECK
Tri-monthly auditing will be
done by state government
and 6 monthly auditing by
central government. Once a
year auditing and cross
checking will done by
private firms.
6 monthly auditing will be
conducted by private firms
and once a year auditing
will be done by state
government agency.
Assigned boards will give
grade based on audit report

7. BASICS IMPLEMENTATION
ELIGIBALITY Private firms will be eligible for government dealing by firstly investing in
education. None of the firm will be eligible unless they invest on the
priority sector.
CRITERIA The basic criteria of investment in education institute will be 35% in
primary education,35% in secondary and 30% in higher education. in
investment structuring of infrastructure, its maintenance and
responsibility will be on private investing firm.
CHECK The basis on investment will be audited by govt agency and report will be
on public domain and its maintenance will be timely audited by
government agency.
BENEFITS Private firm will be benefitted by tax reduction, discount in financial deal of
government and favour in SEZ’s allotment. benefit will be calculated on
basis of investment
RESULTS This public-private alliance will result in the benefit of both the concerned
parties, one being private firm itself and other being the society. Burden
on any one party will be reduced and fast benefit can be cultivated.

8. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SOLUTION
APPOINTMENT OF TEACHERS
For better recruitment process the national/state level exams should be publicised 4
months before the examination so that the people interested can get the knowledge
of the same. The examination paper should be prepared by the group consisting of
experienced people in the field of education. The exam should contain logical and
analytical aspect to check the teachers mental status. The checking process of the
examination should be computerised and it should be done by national/state level
education department. The result should be published online within a month.

9. IMPACT OF THE SOLUTION
· Public and private auditing can be a tool to measure the impact of
solution in Society.
· Survey by students (can be a part of their assignments), NGOs, public
bodies can bring out actual results.
· Monthly tour of people(different) to Primary schools
Sustainability of Solution
· with growing trend of privatization and lessening government
intervention into society management. PPP will lessen the burden on either
side and will provide transparency and better accountability.
· With innovation in method of teaching and implementation, pupil will
develop a rational insight in future.
· Revision of educational policy and its implementation method with the
matching pace of growth of society, provides society with better economic,
political and social future conditions.

10. Challenges involved with PPP
Socially: It may seem biased if private enterprise is involved because their main aim is to
derive profits out of any venture the enter into. People may loose confidence in policy.
Economic: If the policy proposed is not devised efficiently then govt. may become short of
funds.
Politically: Politicians today may be reluctant to pass such a policy as there would be a very
little scope of misappropriation of funds as everything will be in public domain.
Mitigation factors
Involving people and making them aware of the policy to maintain confidence of people can
mitigate challenges.
CHALLENGES AND MITIGATION FACTORS

11. References
• Self Conducted Survey in Govt schools of
Ahmedabad.
• ASER’12
• National Knowledge Report
• Planning Commission Report