LOK JUMBISH - RAJASTHAN

!"School mapping and micro planning continues at village level as amobilisation activity. However, the data requirements for planning werecollected through Shiksha Darpan and later/Shiksha Aap ke Dwar, ahousehold survey covering all villages in the state, including LJ projectareas. 27- Women’s Development cell has been merged with child development (EarlyChildhood Care and Education). 28- Teachers have been given additional responsibilities –– supervising droughtrelief programmes and women’s self-help groups.March 2001 - DFID formally signed an agreement with Government of India to fund PhaseIII of Lok Jumbish and agreed to reimburse expenditure with effect fromDecember 1999.13 February2003 29 - Rajasthan High Court judgement that teachers cannot be asked to take onadditional responsibilities and they can only be called upon for duties innational interest only: Election duty, census operations every 10 years,23 April200316 April2003:economic surveys every five years, and Pulse Polio campaign.- Government of Rajasthan issued an order directing District Magistrates tocomply with the Rajasthan High Court ruling on non-teaching responsibilitiesof schoolteachers.Anticipated changes in July 2004 in connection with Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan andthe management of education programmes in the state: 30- Phase III of Lok Jumbish comes to a close. As per the guidelines ofGovernment of India, all basic education programmes will come under SarvaShiksha Abhiyan. Lok Jumbish will cease to exist as a project and so willLok Jumbish Parishad ––– an autonomous body created to manage theproject.- All project functionaries to come under the purview of block and districtEducation Officers.- Special parallel systems created by Lok Jumbish will cease to exist with theclosure of the project in June 2004.27 After eight blocks were transferred to DPEP, LJ was left with 57 blocks. Data from microplanning was available only for 30 of them. Data/information at the state level was collectedthrough a state-wide survey known as Shiksha Aap Ke Dwar.28 The Government of Rajasthan and the Director Lok Jumbish made the following declarationon 17 January 2000 in the High Court of Judicature of Rajasthan (S B Civil Writ Petition No.113/2000; Mrs Vijay Laxmi Joshi versus Lok Jumbish and Others): ‘The petitioner was workingin the unit of Women’s Development. The same has been abolished and the reason being thatbecause of financial constraint every effort was made to see that the project should be reduced tosuch an extent that there may not be an excessive burden on the project and also to see at thesame time that the very object of the project may be achieved which was related touniversalisation of primary education, providing access to primary education for all children up to14 years and accordingly a decision was taken to abolish the Unit of Women’s Development inthe project and the same has been done so for the Phase III of the project The First Phase ofProject ended on 30.6.1995. The Second Phase ended in 30.6.1998 and was extended up to 31.Dec. 1999. However for the purpose of transferring the balance fund available with Sida the latteragreed to pass this fund up to December 1999. The Parishad under such financial constraints wasrequired to restructure itself and exhaustive exercise was carried outp.’29 Interview with Mr Alok on 28 May 2003, Jaipur.30 Ibid.Lok Jumbish Case Study Page 34 1 August 2003