Policy Briefs & Reports

PAISA District Studies Rural 2010-11

Yamini Aiyar, Anirvan Chowdhury, Avani Kapur, Gayatri Sahgal, Shailey Tucker
Anil Baber, Indrojit Banerji, Suddhasattwa Barik, Manjula Budarapu, Poonam Choudhury, Ambrish Dongre, Laina Emmanuel, Ram Ratan Jat, Venugopal Kalokota, Dinesh Kumar, Anit Mukherjee, Adarsh Namala, Seema Muskan, Swapna Ramtake, Vinod Verma

Centre for Policy Research

May 11, 2013

Between May 2011 and August 2011, the PAISA team went to around 1300 schools in 9 districts spread across 7 states to do a detailed PAISA study on elementary education financing. The study focused on tracking the flow of funds from their point of origin (Central and State Governments) to their final point of expenditure.

The 9 districts covered by the PAISA study are: Medak (Andhra Pradesh), Nalanda and Purnea (Bihar), Kangra (Himachal Pradesh), Sagar (Madhya Pradesh), Satara (Maharasthra), Jaipur and Udaipur (Rajasthan) and Jalpaiguri (West Bengal). More details can be found in the attached report.