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DISTRICT PRIMARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME
 
ORIGIN

District Primary Education Programme (DPEP), launched in India in 1994, is one of the largest education projects of its kind in the world. The Programme aims to achieve the long cherished goal of Universalisation of Elementary Education (UEE) in the country through district-specific planning with emphasis on decentralised management, participatory processes, empowerment and capacity building at all levels.
 
ADMINISTRATIVE SET UP


1. District Collector :: Chairman
2. District Educational Officer :: Ex-officio-Project Coordinator.
3. Additional Project Co-ordinator (Senior lecturer from DIET) – Executive head
4. Academic Monitoring Officer (Senior lecturer from DIET).
5. Community Mobilisation Officer (Asst. Director rank from any dept.)
6. Girld Child Development Officer (PG HM)
7. UEE Co-ordinator (School Asst. Rank).
8. Asst. Accounts Officer (Asst. Treasury Officer)
9. (2) Dy. Executive Engineers.
10. 46 M.E.Os.
11. 139 Mandal Resource persons.
 
District Primary Education Programme is a five year project sanctioned to the district in the second phase during the year 1998-99 with the following aims and objects to strengthen the primary education.

1. access 2. Enrollment 3. Retention 4. Quality.

ACCESS:

All the 3073 Each habitation are provided with a primary school within a radius of 1 km.

  • There are 2394 primary schools, 598 upper primary schools, 397 high schools in the district. 133 alternative schools, 152 maabadies in TSP area.
  • Pre-primary facility is provided to 338 schools by providing early childhood education centers. 700 anganwadi centers are provided partial support and brought under supervision of the primary schools.
  • 178 buildings were provided to building less schools.
  • 991 number of additional class rooms have been constructed.
  • 348 number of new school buildings were constructed.
  • 48 Mandal Resource Centres, 2 Divisional Resource Centres were constructed.
  • 527 new primary schools were established to provide access.
  • 250 primary schools were upgraded as upper primary schools to provide access to elementary education.
 
ENROLLMENT

The following strategies are implemented to bring the out of school children into the schools.
  1. Residential bridge course camps for 9-14 years age group. There are 56 RBCs with 100 intake were in 2003-04. The children are instructed for 6-10 months and mainstread to schools according to age and eligibility. Presently there are 30 RBCs with 2676 children.
  2. Non residential bridge course camps.
  3. Back to school programme
 

Non Residential Bridge Course camps:

This programme is meant for dropout children. There were 38 NRBCs during the year
2003-04.

NRBC is opened in the habitation where out of school children are more than 20 under the supervision of local school Head Master. Locally available volunteer-cum-mobiliser will provide education to the dropout children of that habitation. The children will be mainstreamed as per the eligibility and age of the child. At present 38 NRBCs are functioning.

Back to school programme:

This programme is meant for the droupouts of 9-14 age group children and it is a 45 days short term bridge programme during summer. The back to school programme is organized with the conveyance of Social Welfare and Tribal Welfare departments. The children are provided boarding facility in the hostels and instructions is arranged through locally available volunteers. They are mainstreamed in the month of June, 2003.

There are 6 back to schools during the year 2003-04 and 459 children are mainstreamed.

RETENTION:

Measures are taken to transmit all the children to the next higher class under the child in the schools.

QUALITY:

Training on universalisation of elementary education is provided to all the teachers to achieve 100% enrollment.

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