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MANTHAN: Enhancing Primary Education

Team Details

Kunal Kumar RakeshManoranjanPranjal SinghSunil KumarWasim Akram Sheikh Indian Institute Of Technology Kanpur

`Problem Statement Causes

Existing Structure

Lack of adequate supervision

Lack of quality check of employees regularly

No access of common man to the authority

Improper use of provided funds

Poor Quality EducationPoor Quality of Teachers

No incentive for better teaching,

Serious ConcernIn 2010 nationally, 46.3% of all children in Std. V could not read a Std. II level text. This proportion increasedto 51.8% in 2011 and further to 53.2% in 2012.

The percentage of all children enrolled in Std. III who cannot read a Std. I level text has increased steadily from 53.4% (2009) to 54.4% (2010) to 59.7%(2011) to 61.3% in 2012.

source - ASER 2012

Some Data About our Education System

Source: ASER 2012

Primary Education

Improvement in System Improvement in Education

Supervision

WebsiteMaintenance

Toll FreeNumber

Curriculum

Attendance

Dataupdate

New Proposals

PracticalKnowledge

Fingerprint Scanner

Rural Area

Teaching Methodology

Urban Area

Reduction of Non-academic involvement

Privatization of Mid Day Meal (MDM)

Requirement Improvement implement

For accountability of every employee in this system

Supervision

Teachers

Authority

Toll Free Number

Website Maintenance

Established through Call center.

Attendance via fingerprint device.

Select Inspection team via UPSC exam and

train it for every state

Update daily current status(Present of

teachers and students in school).

Benefits

Improvement in existing system

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• Will decrease the fraud cases in attendance .

• Can easily be uploaded on web & analyzed

• Improvement in accountability

• Better implementation of policies

• Complaints can reach to authority without revealing the identity.

• Public accessibility• Increase in

transparency

Detailed Explanation of implementation of Solution

SupervisionFor Teachers and BEOs

To ensure the attendance, we can introduce a system of fingerprint recognition device.Device Specifications• Run by the battery which can be charged with solar power.• The data will be stored in it in a portable memory storage which can’t be edited specifying the day and time. • The required device may be designed by organizing a national level competition.• The reports will have to be submitted to the Block office every fortnight which will be uploaded on web.

BEO will be given instantaneous instruction on the particular day to visit any school for inspection, to ensure that the schools are inspected in their usual running way. He will have to upload the report on the website, along with the photos of classes running, to display the attendance of that school. It will enhance the accountability of the BEO himself and the information will be accessible to all.

For authority• One UPSC trainee per Division should be appointed to look over the working whole system from division officer to the

school level.• He will be independent of the government & accountable directly to the supreme court.• He should be given the authority to question & take appropriate action on accused.• His work period will only be of one year .• He will be given incentive on every mismanagement case puts light on.

Improvement in existing system

Teaching methodology

Urban areasa) Introduction of Audio-Visual teaching aids

• Implementation –Schools will be provided with the projector system with supplementary equipments.A centralized and uniform library and archive of audio- visual animated lectures series compiled by the best available teaching faculty(or NGO) to be produced in a common storage format. Specifications of projector system:

o A built-in flash storage device to store the run time of video and its duration everydayo The run time of video to be sent to black control centre and monitored through centralized

website system to ensure that the lectures are really shown to students on timely basis.o A solar panel powered alternative power supply system to be provided in electricity deficient

zones.• Benefits

o Uniform curriculum all over India with regional customizationso Best quality education by best faculty delivered at minimum costo Conventional and traditional Workload of teachers will be reduced from teaching to supplimentative

and corrective. o Parent teacher periodic counseling sessions can be delivered for their psycho-economical

improvement leading to more awareness.

Improvement in Education System

Curriculum• Inclusion of activities to give practical knowledge & social exposure .

o This can be done by arranging the visits to nearby: Bank Police station Panchayat Hospital Nursery

• Introduction to practical life skill courses in classes 9th onwards to empower them to earn their livings even after class 12th or so. In this way people will be attracted to send their wards to schools looking at immediate incentive to do so.

• More student friendly modules to be customized in their regional languages.


Amendment in new recruitment and current faculty

New recruitment

Aptitude test• B.Ed. Not necessary.• Minimum eligibility 12th class.

Practical Computer examination.

Training• Mass training should be avoided, rather only around 500 people may be trained at a

time. In this way, around 2000 people may be trained in 4 terms, but it will be more effective than training all at a time.

• Training to understand the mentality/psychology of children. • Training with successful NGOs model.

Visits through NGOs in the living atmosphere of the student to know the current scenario.


Teaching performance Index (TPI)

Definition

A representative number for eachteacher to be calculated and updatedafter every year

All teachers to be segregated at 5 levels based on (TPI) at intervals of 20 as follows :


CALCULATION PARAMETERS

PROPORTIONAL WEIGHTAGE GIVEN TO THETEACHER FOR CUMULATIVE % OF THE STUDENTSQUALIFYING A NATIONAL LEVEL SCHOLARSHIPBASED EXAM AT CLASS 3 AND 5 LEVELS TAUGHTBY A PARTICULAR TEACHER

CUMULATIVE FEEDBACK FROM STUDENTS FOR TEACHER ON THE BASIS OF :• Teaching style• Doubt clearance• Board work quality• Extra time help assistance• Negative marking and blacklisting in the cases of

punishment(specifically corporal) frequency.• Accountability and sincerity

India common examination for teacher knowledge re-evaluation to be held 1 –time with the aim to segregate out already existing faulty teachers who got recruitment due to corruption but are inefficient and inadequate on academics in reality


Recruitment-transfer-promotionchain setup

Promotion based on TPI only

Optimising the recruitment, appointment and transfers of a teacher in the most adequate region.

Grade wise positioning :• A -grade: top notch supreme authority• Positioned AT DIRECTIVE AND MANAGERIAL POSTS (PRNCIPAL, HEADMASTER, DIRECTOR,ETC)• B -grade : high involvement zone• Positioned in the worst literacy rate region ; specially remote rural areas.• C -grade: medium range involvement zone• To be placed in urban region which are equipped with audio –visual projector system. Hence demanding

lower teaching load and more supplementary role.• D -grade : improvement phase :• A mandatory improvement workshop to be attended at the cost of one’s own salary. This acts as incentive

for improvement.• E -grade filter phase:

o 2 successive chances to be given to improve after attending an optional workshop.o To allot non academic work to teachers—(mid day meal management, attendance, projector ,

audio-visual system , fingerprint scanner , solar panel maintenance only).


Benefit for teachers :

An incentive to increase theirTPI continuously for attainmentof better social status depictedby their grade level forpromotion.

A continuous Re-evaluation and filter GRADE–E on annual TPI

calculation acts as a preventive danger zone thereby motivating teachers to perform good uniformly and consistently

Unessential and non academic work load of mid day meal & other maintenance activities transferred top E grade teachers . hence the efficiency of A-C grade teachers is significantly increased.

Fixed and equal salary system to be replaced by an additional surplus salary above the threshold basic minimum payment; proportional to theweightage of current and cumulative TPI

Quality is maintained consistent throughout the academic session

Most quality deprived students get the best quality teachers in high involvement rural zones

Greater number of students get motivated for scholarship.

Dropout rate after primary schooling considerably reduced.

Benefit for Students, Government and Management:


Reduction of Non-academic involvement

Mid Day Meal Should be:• Centralize the system :

o Give the authority to a single body/ firm to improve the functioning and regulate it better throughout the nation.

• Privatize the system : o To improve the quality of service and food o Enhance the accountabilityo Reduce the non academic workload of

teachers presently involved in it.• Regionally customized :

o To make it suitable for the local children.o People in a locality will be comfortable in making their local food.

Impact of Solution

Criteria to measure the impact of solution• Progress in educational standards of students.• Improved attendance of teachers and students.• Lesser orientation towards private schools and tuitions.• Awareness in society towards primary education.• Practical exposure to children.

Scalability of the Solution:• Solution can be implemented nationwide, with regional customization.• Children in remote areas can also be attracted towards primary education.

Sustainability of Solution• Its using the present system judiciously.• Relevant with present scenario and social structure.• Facilitates the basic needs of education, without affecting any other activity.

Appropriate Monitoring Mechanism• Teacher Performance Index (TPI).• Toll Free number, for the common people to report any mismanagement.• Website, so that people can be updated about different policies and ongoing activities, along with

the progress report of the system.

Challenges And Mitigation Factors

Socio-Economic And Political:• Political Parties may be reluctant for the non accountability of the UPSC trainees towards the

government.• Security, misuse and maintenance of the infrastructure and new gadgets provided to the schools.• Coping with the pre-conceived notions and beliefs in people about malfunctioning and quality of

education in government schools. • Fund raising for the new equipment and infrastructure in the schools. Mitigation Factors :• Equipment should be designed in a way to be used only for the specific purpose, to minimize its misuse.• Equipment should be strong enough to be used in the school environment.• Convincing people about the immediate incentive of education to their children by the people who have

succeeded in their localities.• Giving sponsorships to private companies to provide the equipment to the schools, or sponsorship of the

school itself.

In Hope of A small but big step towards our

DREAM INDIA……