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Public provisioning for elementary education in India [electronic resource]

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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. Public Provisioning for Elementary Education in India focuses on elementary. education in the context of the ongoing

Title Public provisioning for elementary education in India [electronic resource] / Praveen Jha ... [et al.].
Publisher New Delhi, India
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications
Creation Date 2008
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [438]-444) and index.
English
Content 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.
Extent 1 online resource (455 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010715335605171
MARC RECORDS
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