PAISA District Studies Rural 2010-11

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

11 May 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.