https://apero.thedataareclean.com/categories/public-finance/ Recent content in public-finance on cube Hugo -- gohugo.io en CC BY 4.0 Mon, 10 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/cdl/2021-05-10-ed-definition/ Mon, 10 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/cdl/2021-05-10-ed-definition/ Photo by Gautam Arora from Unsplash. COVID-19 has had an unprecedented impact affecting a large number of children across states, class, caste, gender and region. In India, school closures have affected 320 million students and only 37.6 million children across 16 states were able to continue education through various initiatives such as online classrooms and radio programmes etc. 1 A survey by Save the Children during the pandemic reported the discontinuation of children’s education in 62% of the surveyed households with 67% in rural and 55% in urban areas, respectively. https://apero.thedataareclean.com/project/girl-ed/ Thu, 01 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://apero.thedataareclean.com/project/girl-ed/ Background CivicDataLab partnered with HAQ: Centre for Child Rights (HAQ-CRC) and Malala Fund on a project to strengthen financial accountability towards girl education in Uttar Pradesh. The project aims at monitoring the financing of education related scheme with a special focus on promoting girl education in the state. This project will serve as a means to measure the progress towards SDG Goal 4 & 6 and will also strengthen accountability measures in public financing of education by creating a knowledge pool which will further help policy making to promote girl education. https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/cdl/2021-02-18-budget-reco-ed/ Thu, 18 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/cdl/2021-02-18-budget-reco-ed/ Photo by marif shaik from Unsplash. COVID-19 and Education The COVID-19 pandemic changed the education landscape of India overnight. Educational institutes were compelled to adopt various digital learning alternatives to sustain timely growth of children. In a country where only 4.4% of rural and 23.4% of urban households own computers, the challenge becomes even bigger. Moreover, this gap gets wider with only 42% of urban households having a computer with an internet connection, and the same being available to only 14. https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/cdl/2020-12-23-girl-ed/ Wed, 23 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/cdl/2020-12-23-girl-ed/ Girl Education and India Although education is a fundamental right in India, according to Census 2011, 1 in 4 children of school going age is out of school in our country and 99 million children in total have dropped out of school in the last 10 years. Out of every 100 children, only 32 children finish their school education age-appropriately (DISE 2014–15). The Govt. has achieved universal enrollment in primary school but dropout rate is 4% in elementary school, rising to 17% in secondary school.