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Title Public provisioning for elementary education in India. / Praveen Jha [and others]
Published New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (454 pages) : illustrations
Contents Public provisioning of education: some contemporary issues -- Tracking progress at the state and district levels -- Fiscal crisis of states and role of centrally sponsored schemes -- Analysis of public expenditure on elementary education: 1993-94 to 2005-06 -- Norms for government financing of elementary education -- Bottlenecks in the planning and budgetary processes: the case of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan -- Possibilities and challenges of sustaining educational financing
Summary This book analyses the magnitude of public expenditure on education, the composition of such expenditure, the flow of funds from the Centre to the districts, and the. bottlenecks in the process, with a focus on elementary education. Most of the existing body of work in this area concentrates on Central Government's budgetary provisions instead. The significance of this research lies in that it dwells on the major challenges confronting the States with regard to these issues
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 438-444) and index
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Subject Education, Elementary -- India -- Finance
Education, Elementary -- Economic aspects -- India
EDUCATION -- Elementary.
Education, Elementary -- Economic aspects
Education, Elementary -- Finance
India
Form Electronic book
Author Jha, Praveen K. (Praveen Kumar)
ISBN 9788132100287
813210028X