Education Outlook for Madhya Pradesh 2011

As per the 2001 Census, Assam has a literacy rate of 63.3%, slightly lower than the national literacy rate of 65.38%. The literacy rate in Assam can be broken down to show a male literacy rate of 71.3% and a female literacy of 54.6%.According to the ASER Report 2010, only 45% of children in Std. V can read Std. II level text and only 62% can do division problems.

Pratham in Madhya Pradesh this Year (2010 – 11)

Geographical Coverage: 3000 villages across 12 BEPs & 2 DRCs
Children Reached: 66,805
Volunteers Mobilized: 5,666

• Pratham is currently running the ‘Read India’ (RI) program through 12BEPs and 2 DRCs. 2 volunteers per village are mobilized in every target village to teach a group of 20 – 25 children, who are all well below their expected grade level competencies. One volunteer teaches children in classes 1 & 2, focusing on basic literacy numeracy skills, while the other volunteer teaches children in classes 3-5, focusing on reading fluency and comprehension, as well as Arithmetic operations. Volunteers also teach English, where focus is on letter recognition, vocabulary building and ability conduct basic greetings in English.
• Approximately half of the classes in Madhya Pradesh are run Government schools, where volunteers teach struggling children during school hours. The remaining classes are run in the community before or after school hours. Each BEP also has a Block Resource Centre, which is used by block coordinators* and district coordinators** to conduct trainings for volunteers and for other administrative purposes.
• Pratham is running a Mechanical Vocational Training program in the Bina block in Madhya Pradesh.
• Pratham is running the Education for Education (EFE) program in 14 districts in Madhya Pradesh.

* Block Coordinators are responsible for monitoring, training and evaluation in 20 villages
** District Coordinators are in charge of operations and reporting for the entire block

Future Plans

Pratham plans to begin setting up ‘PRATAP’ Centres (Pratham Training, Assessment and Placement Centre) in order to begin its transition to a post-secondary institution, which will be open to not only volunteers but all youth. These centres will be run in conjunction witht he EFE program initially. At this time, a village census has been conducted, which includes details of proximity, travel times, and travel costs from villages to EFE centres.

Additionally, the next few months in Madhya Pradesh will include a class-wise data collection operation of volunteer run classes.